100. [T]oday it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the preset moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent. –Simone Weil 200. Poets who died with…
40. The principal truth is this: latent in every act of complete reading is the compulsion to write a book in reply. The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in…
63. And that will take up a thousand hours of energy. — Jack Kerouac, letter to Allen Ginsberg 126. Nevertheless you still charge words with meaning mainly in three ways, called phanopoeia, melopoeia, logopoeia. You…
63. And that will take up a thousand hours of energy. — Jack Kerouac, letter to Allen Ginsberg 126. Nevertheless you still charge words with meaning mainly in three ways, called phanopoeia, melopoeia, logopoeia. You…