“L'esperienza non è ciò che accade a un uomo: è cio che un uomo fa con quel che gli accade.”
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 108, p. 204.
Originale
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Variante: Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Origine: Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Contesto: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
Aldous Huxley 152
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