Peter Redgrove Quotes

#1. Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

Peter Redgrove

#2. Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

Peter Redgrove

#3. It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

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#4. The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge.

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#5. It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.

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#6. We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration

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#7. The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

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