March 2012
“All at first was the fremitus of things, the jigger of gnats, drum of the blood,...”
– Guy Davenport (via love won’t save us)
(via invisiblestories)
“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy...”
– Walter Benjamin, from “Illuminations: Essays and Reflections”
“My face is my own. My hands are my own. My mouth is my own but I am not.”
- Robert Creeley, from “A Form of Women”
“Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry,...”
– Louis Aragon, Treatise on Style (via alive-alive-oh)
“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they...”
– Steven Millhauser, “Dangerous Laughter” (via invisiblestories)
“Wandering creates the desert.”
– Edmond Jabès, quoted in Pierre Joris’ A Nomad Poetics: Essays (via hypocrite-lecteur)
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...”
– George Bataille
“The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
– Henri Bergson (via mythologyofblue)
Cf. “Whoever possesses any originality must begin by extracting it; whoever does not, must acquire it. Talent is a long patience. Look at anything you intend to depict long and attentively enough to discover some aspect which has been seen and expressed by no...
