A Quote by Lewis H. Lapham
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
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Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
The power of the visible is the invisible.
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Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.
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