in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Know that your work speaks only to those on the same wavelength as you.
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
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Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn't our age coined the term "escapism," when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?
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This personal morality may appear to be immorality itself in the eyes of those who lie to themselves, or who live a life of confusion, in such a manner that, for them, a lie becomes the truth, and our truth becomes a lie...
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Do not close the circle. Leave it open. Descartes closes the circle. Pascal leaves it open. Rousseau's triumph over the encyclopedists is to have left his circle open when they closed theirs.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
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