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b. 1939
Gémino Henson Abad (born February 5, 1939) is a Filipino poet, essayist, literary critic, and educator from Cebu, Philippines. Widely regarded as one of the foremost voices in Philippine literature in English, he has shaped the country’s literary landscape through his poetry, critical essays, and anthologies.
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“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”
"Poetry is the most human of arts, for it is language itself that makes us human.”
"Man is the only being among other beings on earth that seeks truth in knowledge.”
“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”
"Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”
“The imagination, to repeat, makes real to the mind what the mind abstracts from our experience, what the mind perceives or intuits in the world.”
"Only the truth satisfies and fulfills his nature.”
“Mind and imagination are one. Without imagination there is no thinking nor intuition beyond concept.”
“All great thinkers—scientists, inventors, artists—are men and women of vigorous imagination.”
"The imagination, our mind’s profoundest faculty or power, makes real to the mind what it abstracts as the truth in our experience.”
“What meaning dwells in one’s experience is its truth, its saysay.”
“Therefore, diwa is basically the spring of the poem’s dynamis or power to persuade and move the reader intellectually and emotionally.”
"In the end, it is the genius or tutelary spirit in imagination shall save humanity and earth.”
“In speech and writing, language translates—that is to say, ferries across its words—our perception of reality.”
“The poem or literary work is work of language and work of imagination—both.”
"What we call the ‘universal plane’ is not the realm of eternal verities, but rather, the site of everlasting quest and questioning.”
“The word evokes an image, the image lights up its meaning.”
“Diwa is essentially, in the writing of the poem or literary work, the poet’s own mood or feeling, stance or attitude, outlook or perspective.”
“Truth-saying or truth-bearing is the very nature of language.”
“The meanings of our words do not arise from themselves, or from their differential play, so much as from lives lived in a given historical time and culture.”
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