Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
— Thoreau, Walden, chp. 18
We still and always want waking.
— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (1989, 593)
And then. Be old. The next thing is. We are once amore as babes awondering in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we start from scratch.
— Finnegans Wake, 336
It is only by taking fresh looks at situations thought already to be understood that we come up with truly insightful and creative visions. The ability to reperceive, in short, is at the crux of creativity.
— Hofstadter/FARG (1995, 308)