Saturday, March 7, 2009

Lares penatesque, or what I've lived by.

Beginners

How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
How they inure themselves as much as to any-what a
paradox appears their age,
How people respond to them, yet know them not,
How there is something relentless in their fate all times,
How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and
reward,
And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the
same great purchase.

Walt Whitman, Inscriptions, L.G.


"Writing is about discovering things
hitherto unseen. Otherwise there’s no
point to the process."

W.G. Sebald, from Maxims collected by his students.

"All Real Knowledge is accumulated in ignorance of what it will lead to."

Guy Davenport, On Reading

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