"For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat
to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where
life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they
will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are
viable enough to be set free and survive in the world." from Lewis Hyde's The Gift (p. 67)
"'Labor should not be sold like merchandise but offered as a gift to the community.'" --Che Guevara, quoted in Lewis Hyde's The Gift (p. 87).
"To convert an idea into a commodity means, broadly speaking, to establish a boundary of some sort so that the idea cannot move from person to person without a toll or fee." Lewis Hyde's The Gift (p. 105)
"'The artist appeals...to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition--and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity...which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.'" --Joseph Conrad, quoted in Lews Hyde's The Gift (p. 198).
"The artist's gift refines the materials of perception or intuition that have been bestowed upon him; to put it another way, if the artist is gifted, the gift increases in its passage through the self. The artist makes something higher than what he has been given, and this, the finished work, is the third gift, the one offered to the world in general or directed back specifically to the 'clan and homeland' of an earlier gift." --Lewis Hyde's The Gift (p. 248)
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