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En anglais : "None of the great religions have done more than exclude, throw out a long range of prohibitions. But prohibitions create the desire they are intended to cure. We of this Cabal say: indulge but refine. We are enlisting everything in order to make man's wholeness match the wholeness of the universe – even pleasure, the destructive granulation of the mind in pleasure."

Extrait de : "Cette domination du paysage contemplé, cette prise de possession du paysage dominé, est exprimée très posément dans deux vers de W. Cowper :

I am monarch of all I survey ;
My right there is none to dispute.

Je suis le monarque de tout ce que je contemple. — Mon droit sur ce point ne saurait m'être disputé. »"
in La terre et les rêveries de la volonté de Gaston Bachelard


Dans "Avec les fées", Sylvain Tesson retranscrit ce vers ainsi :
">« Je suis le prince de ce que je contemple » (Cowper, cité par Bachelard)"


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En anglais:
“I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.”

En anglais : "We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

En anglais : "The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one's place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things."

En anglais : " he paragraph is the building block.
In poetry it's the line, for me, in prose it's the paragraph.
Each paragraph is a self-contained work that spills over into the next.
I work on a paragraph and work on it and work on it until it reasonably seems ok.
And then, because I think there's nothing more I can do, and also because, if I left it I won't be able to read it, because the writing is so small. I turn and type up the paragraph on the typewriter."

Autre traduction : "Le plus grand des supplices est d'attendre un mal inévitable."

"Nil nimium satis est : ne sit et hoc nimium"

Autre traduction : "Un vieux tyran est ce qu'il y a de plus rare à trouver"