People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innoc...ence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,... Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er the green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led... to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal ...of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is more manifest than ever that tyranny rules. I see this government to be effectually allied with France and Austria in oppres...sing mankind. There sits a tyrant holding four millions of slaves; here comes their heroic liberator. This most hypocritical and diabolical government looks up from its seat on the gasping four millions, and inquires with an assumption of innocence: "What do you assault me for? Am I not an honest man? Cease agitation on this subject, or I will make a slave of you, too, or else hang you."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do wel...l to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence... Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence--a lot passes you by--simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »