I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creationöthe miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  The Doors of Perception.

   The generalizations of science sweep in ever-widening circles, and more aspiring flights, through a limitless creation.

-Huxley,T(homas) H(enry)
  Letter to The Times, 26 Dec.

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

-Jefferson,Thomas
c.1776  Draft of the  American Declaration of Independence. Collected in  J P Boyd et al Papers of  Thomas Jefferson (1950), vol.1.

   Art islike Creation: it holdsgood onthelast dayas onthe first.

-Klee, Paul
  The Diaries of Paul Klee1898^1918, entry1008.

Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day and the ship that runs in the sea with profit to men, and the water God sends down from heaven therewith reviving the earth after it is dead and His scattering abroad in it all manner of crawling thing, and the turning about of the winds and the clouds compelled between heaven and earthö surely there are signs fora people having understanding.

-The Koran
Sura 2, l.164.

A jazz performance centers upon the process of creation. The final objective is not only the finished product, but the path and process taken towards it.

-Liebman, David
  Self-Portrait of a Jazz- Artist, ch.3.

The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called 'divine'creation.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Sexus, ch.9.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The Air-Conditioned Nightmare,'With Edgar Var e' se in the Gobi Desert'.

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

-Milton,John
   Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.896^91.

O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!

-Milton,John
   Adam to Michael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.12, l.470^4.

Car loin de le [le lecteur] ne¤  gliger, l'auteur aujourd'hui proclame l'absolu besoin qu'il a de son concours actif, conscient, cre¤  ateur. Ce qu'il lui demande, ce n'est plus de recevoir tout fait un monde acheve¤  , plein, clos sur lui- me"  me, c'est au contraire de participer a'   une cre¤  ation, d'inventer a'   son tour l'½uvreöet le mondeöet d'apprendre ainsi a'   inventer sa propre vie. Far from neglecting him [the reader], the author today proclaims the absolute necessity of the reader's active, conscious and creative assistance.What he demands of the reader is no longer to receive a ready-made world, complete, full, closed in upon itself.On the contrary, the reader isasked toparticipateinthe creation, toinvent for himself aworköand the worldöand tounderstand thus how to invent his own life.

-Robbe-Grillet, Alain
  Pour un nouveau roman.

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner to Octavius Robinson. Man and Superman, act1.

  So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankensteinömore, far more, will I achieve; treading the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

-Shelley, Mary Godwin
  Frankenstein, ch.3.

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
  TheWoman's Bible, pt.2, preface.

'Pray, my dear,'quoth my mother,'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?'ö'Good Gö?'cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,ö'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'

-Sterne, Laurence
ö67  Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.6.

Poetry is a rich, full-blooded whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbers the leaf, the duet of two nightingales, the sweet pea, that has run wild,Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

-Stevens,Wallace
Quoted in Life,13 Jun1960.

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

-Stone, Samuel John
  Lyra fidelium.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final lawö Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 31.

Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final lawö Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 56, l.9^16.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., epilogue, l.142^4.