Dissolve Quotes
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Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar
incantations Dissolve the floors
of memory And all its clear
relations Its divisions and
precisions.
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More Dissolve Quotes
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
john milton— Line 159. (Il Penseroso (1631))
Like bubbles in the water , the worlds rise, exist and Dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything.
— Adi Shankara, in Atma Bodha
For myself, I care not what may be the result. Dissolve, if you please, the Parliament you have betrayed, and appeal to the people, who, I believe, mistrust you. For me there remains this at least the opportunity of expressing thus publicly my belief that a Conservative Government is an Organised Hypocrisy.
benjamin disraeli— Speech in the House of Commons (17 March 1845).
In the upstairs bedroom, old Ann dies very slowly, remembering the events of the long-ago wedding night and the next morning...She is attended by a nurse with an Irish accent (Eileen Atkins), who sometimes prompts her: "Remember a happy time!" Dissolve to Ann's memory of a happy time. It is so mundane that if it qualifies as a high point in her life, it compares with Paris Hilton remembering a good stick of gum.
roger ebert— Review of Evening (29 June 2007)
Fade far away, Dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.
john keats— 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 3.
How few the days are that hold the mind in place; like a tapestry hanging on four or five hooks. Especially the day you stop becoming; the day you merelyare. I suppose it's when the principles Dissolve, and instead of the general gray of what ought to be you begin to see what is? The word 'Now' is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
Arthur Miller— 1964 Quentin. After the Fall, act1.
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements Dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.
christopher alexander— Cited in: Peter Coad (1992, p. 152) About what happens when one finds a pattern?
No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights Dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.
sri chinmoy— "Revelation", p. 47
Empires Dissolve and peoples disappear,Song passes not away.
william watson— Lacrymae Musarum, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will Dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.
Norbert Wiener— VII. Communication, Secrecy, and Social Policy. p.129
Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And Dissolve into our judgement all their codes. Then, being clogged with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.
william empson— "Homage to the British Museum" (1932), line 8; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 55.
Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances Dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 20 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to Dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
e. m. forster— p. 151 (What I Believe)
Fade far away, Dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs.
john keats— Stanza 3. (Ode to a Nightingale)
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually Dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.
terence mckenna— Closing statement.
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I Dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— The Cloud, St. 1 (1820)
Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and Dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything.
— p. 14: Quote nr. 8 (Atma Bodha (1987))
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to Dissolve an image into a concept.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, in On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to Dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
— E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1985), p. 151
A little patience , and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells Dissolve, and the people , recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles .
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor (June 1798), after the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to Dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
— Neil Gaiman, in American Gods, Ch. 13
Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances Dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations.
paul karl feyerabend— Paul Karl Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance, p. 20 (2001 [posthumous])
Watch what happens when you Dissolve all the electrons from a body of solid matter.
— Who: Ur
— Note: Before the character can do this, he is killed by Red Mage from being sliced open from the inside.
To destroy this invisible government, to Dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
— Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Platform of the Progressive Party
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to Dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
— Peter Marshall, in Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (1992), p. 47
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to Dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
ernst ludwig kirchner— Letter to K.E. Osthaus, 23 December 1917; as quoted in "Kirchner and the berlin street", ed. Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, 2008, p. 36
