For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, n...ot as farms and houses are, for homestead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The quality of imagination is to flow, and not to freeze. The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning, ...neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon become old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals wi...th the perfecting of that medium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job an...d a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »