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Chasm Quotes

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle.
"Precious, precious, precious!" Gollum cried. "My Precious! O my Precious!" And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his last wail precious, and he was gone.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Kamand Kojouri
“Knowing you,
I became mindless.
Having wasted previous wishes,
I'm riddled with regrets

Feeling you,
I became hopeless.
Adrift in chasms,
I surrender to a caress.

Loving you,
I became love.
My universe became love.
Planets rotate on love's axes and
apples fall to be near their beloveds.

No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love.
I love, therefore
I exist,
therefore I
love.”
Kamand Kojouri

Kōbō Abe
“And again, the dark street. The dark, dark street. The women out shopping for the evening meal of course, and baby carriage and the silver bicycle were already painted out by the darkness; most of the commuters too were already in place in their filing-drawer houses. A half-forsaken chasm of time .... ”
Kobo Abe, The Ruined Map

Ryan Lilly
“The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.”
Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

Jazz Feylynn
“Nevertheless, the radiant light continued to shine no matter how dim the chasm or how vague the view in front of me.”
Jazz Feylynn

“An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.”
Diane Samuels

Virginia Alison
“Within the eye, mysteries of the soul burn deeply beneath the fiery chasms of love and patiently wait for an awakening ...”
Virginia Alison