Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"The history of art is the history of revivals."
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Revival
57 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united."
Thornton Wilder
Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones."
Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian."
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