Snares Quotes - Page 7

• You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

  Conrad Aiken

  Running, Lying, Spring

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Memories, Simple, Past

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Storyteller: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.302, Columbia University Press

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