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Gémino H. Abad
32 quotes
“Mind and imagination are one. Without imagination there is no thinking nor intuition beyond concept.”
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“Concepts without intuition are empty, says Immanuel Kant; intuitions without concept are blind.”
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“All great thinkers—scientists, inventors, artists—are men and women of vigorous imagination.”
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“In the end, it is the genius or tutelary spirit in imagination shall save humanity and earth.”
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“Man is the only being among other beings on earth that seeks truth in knowledge.”
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“Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”
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“Only the truth satisfies and fulfills his nature.”
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“The liar abuses language for the word by itself speaks true.”
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“What we call the ‘universal plane’ is not the realm of eternal verities, but rather, the site of everlasting quest and questioning.”
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“The imagination, our mind’s profoundest faculty or power, makes real to the mind what it abstracts as the truth in our experience.”
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“'Language, a conceptual, evocative system of representation, is our only means to translate into an apprehensible verbal form our thoughts and feelings about our world in our own time and culture.”
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“In speech and writing, language translates—that is to say, ferries across its words—our perception of reality.”
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“Our words are concepts, abstractions.”
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“The word evokes an image, the image lights up its meaning.”
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“The imagination, to repeat, makes real to the mind what the mind abstracts from our experience, what the mind perceives or intuits in the world.”
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“What is most real is what is most imagined.”
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“The meanings of our words do not arise from themselves, or from their differential play, so much as from lives lived in a given historical time and culture.”
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“What meaning dwells in one’s experience is its truth, its saysay.”
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“Truth-saying or truth-bearing is the very nature of language.”
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“Greek poiein, ‘to make,’ yields the English word ‘poem’; hence, poem is a generic term for all kinds of literary work, poetry for imaginative literature, and the poet, a figure for all writers as literary artists.”
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“The poem or literary work is work of language and work of imagination—both.”
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“The poet forges his own path through the wilderness of language—where the words contend for their own image and meaning—for his own clearing in that wilderness.”
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“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”
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“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”
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“Ubuntu, says Nelson Mandela – freely translated: ‘I am because we are.’”
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“Diwa is essentially, in the writing of the poem or literary work, the poet’s own mood or feeling, stance or attitude, outlook or perspective.”
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“Therefore, diwa is basically the spring of the poem’s dynamis or power to persuade and move the reader intellectually and emotionally.”
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“In the poet’s entire corpus, his poems constellate and converse with one another, and therefore, the reader or critic is able to comprehend the poet’s central themes or main concerns and grasp his unique place in his own country’s literary tradition.”
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“I think of Philippine literature as an archipelago of letters because we have many languages, including English and Spanish, both of which have been assimilated over time into our various regional languages.”
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“Tagalog, Sugbuanon, Hiligaynon, Warai, Iloco, Bicol, etc.—they are as much Filipino as that evolving Tagalog-based Filipino that we hope would eventually, through great writing from it, become truly our national language.”
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“There, in the poetry as wrought, if one reads close and imagines well, the poet, and the scholar also, may well be his own country’s best critic and interpreter.”
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“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.”
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