J. D. Salinger on Truth
Browse 4 quotations attributed to J. D. Salinger, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to J. D. Salinger, entry #193783: "Implied Meanings in J. D. Salinger Stories and Inverting" in Hermeneutics In Russia Vol. 2 · PDF"
Attributed to J. D. Salinger, entry #107944: "The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."
4 Quotes by J. D. Salinger on Truth
"Implied Meanings in J. D. Salinger Stories and Inverting" in Hermeneutics In Russia Vol. 2 · PDF"
"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."
"I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience."
"But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist."