For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do. As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor. As tides polish stones. As winds hollow cliffs. The beautiful supermachinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot. There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs.
Saul BellowTags: science obscurity modernism decline machinery
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
George OrwellTags: truth lonely obscurity ghost continuity
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
Criss JamiTags: truth love world opinions ideas uncertainty conflict definition abstraction confusion disagreement obscurity debate fortunate unfortunate fortunately unfortunately
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.
Dylan ThomasTags: pain poetry suffering obscurity
(Regarding a twenty-questions game:)
Did you know that the Russian composer Aram Katchaturian described his ‘Sabre Dance’ as no more than a button on the shirt on the body of his work? No? You’re not alone. Suppose my twenty-questions answer was that metaphorical button — would that be fair?
Tags: obscurity fairness katchaturian ludics twenty-questions
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Jason FriedIf you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.
Abdullah ibn al-MubarakTags: life roots fame earth sincerity eyes hidden tree obscurity flee clatter clinks upright
There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.
BauvardTags: humor greatness funny obscurity cliche
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
Neil GaimanTags: fame obscurity notoriety
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
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