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Zdroj: .týždeň, 37/10. september 2007
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Varianta: Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Zdroj: Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Kontext: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
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Zdroj: .týždeň, 37/10. september 2007
„Ó, jaj! Čo bedákaš? Stane sa s nami len to, čo sa môže stať s človekom.“
„Boh sa stal človekom, aby sa človek stal Bohom.“
„Vážny človek je nebezpečný; je prirodzené, že sa stane tyranom.“
„Malý človek sa môže stať ušľachtilým, ušľachtilý človek môže sa stať malým.“
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„Keď dáš k malému malé a urobíš to často, za malého sa rýchlo stane veľké.“
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Zdroj: [LENČOVÁ, Žofia.: Perly antiky. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1997 ISBN 80-902272-7-9]