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But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

~ Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde Creativity Culture Machines Money Poetry

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

~ Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde Drugs Poetry Substances

There is no way to suppress change…not even in heaven; there is only a choice between a way of living which allows constant, if gradual alterations and a way of living that combines great control and cataclysmic upheavals. Those who panic and bind the trickster choose the latter path. It would be better to learn to play with him, better especially to develop skills (cultural, spiritual, artistic) that allow some commerce with accident, and some acceptance of the changes that contingency will always engender.

~ Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde Change

We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.

~ Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde Community Stories

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

~ Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde Irony
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