In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty.
Rabindranath TagoreTags: words liberty learning freedom beauty joy literature language poem law liberation spirit wings limit marvel grammar caprice first-step hidden-reason pedestal rules-of-grammar
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Salman RushdieTags: beginning conquering first-step
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
Ann VoskampTags: journey step door first-step
We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.
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