Surround Receptive Fields

Famous quotes containing the words surround, receptive and/or fields:

    “salamanders in the flame,
    heraldic wings surround the name
    English from Englisc from
    Engle, Angle
    from the Angles who settled
    in Briton.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there’s a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”
    —Rita Dove (b. 1952)

    “For wheresoe’er I turn my ravished eyes,
    Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
    Poetic fields encompass me around,
    And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)