The question is not how to get rid of our attachments or to renounce them; it’s the intelligence of seeing their true nature, impermanent and passing, empty. We don’t have to get rid of anything. The most difficult, the most insidious, are the attachments to what we think are “spiritual” truths. Attachment to what we call “spiritual” is the very activity that hampers spiritual life. If we are attached to anything we cannot be free or truly loving. So long as we have any picture of how we’re supposed to be or how other people are supposed to be, we are attached.

Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

Since I started to deal with information theory I have often meditated upon the conciseness of poems; how can a single line of verse contain far more information' than a highly concise telegram of the same length. The surprising richness of meaning of literary works seems to be in contradiction with the laws of information theory. The key to this paradox is, I think, the notion of resonance'. The writer does not merely give us information, but also plays on the strings of the language with such virtuosity, that our mind, and even the subconscious self resonate. A poet can recall chains of ideas, emotions and memories with a well-turned word. In this sense, writing is magic.

Alfréd Rényi, as quoted in Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics by Gábor J. Székely