Bliss Perry quotes
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“Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.”
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“But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.”
-- Bliss PerrySource : Bliss Perry (1916). “Fishing with a Worm”
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“... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.”
-- Bliss PerrySource : Bliss Perry (2014). “A Study of Poetry”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc
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Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
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“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
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“Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.”
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“Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.”
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