What is repeated?

Famous quotes containing the word repeated:

    A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    The poem of the mind in the act of finding
    What will suffice. It has not always had
    To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
    Was in the script.
    Then the theatre was changed
    To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)