The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
Interpretation
Exploring the unknown can lead to new and brave experiences.
Angela Carter's quote suggests that the things we cannot see or understand represent new territories full of potential and opportunities. By likening the invisible to an unexplored country, she emphasizes the importance of courage and curiosity in venturing into the unknown, which can lead to transformative experiences and insights in our lives.
In practice
Using this quote as part of a speech on embracing change and uncertainty.
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written β heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
When we find ourselves in the same situation repeatedly as a result of our conditioned responses, we must stop and do a new thing. The situation may look different. The route we take there may be altogether different. The lesson we must learn does not change. Get honest! Pay attention! Change what you do to create a change for yourself!
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
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