2 Quotes Tagged: labyrinths

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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.