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Aimé Césaire
“ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques
(my dear let us lean on geographical veins)”
Aimé Césaire

“Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.”
Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn

Julius Evola
“[...] la civilisation moderne ne doit pas être considérée comme une civilisation « active », mais comme une civilisation d’agités et de névropathes. Comme compensation du «travail» et de l’usure d’une vie qui s’abrutit dans une agitation et une production vaines, l’homme moderne, en effet, ne connaît pas l’otium classique, le recueillement, le silence, l’état de calme et de pause qui permettent de revenir à soi-même et de se retrouver. Non: il ne connaît que la «distraction» (au sens littéral, distraction signifie «dispersion») ; il cherche des sensations, de nouvelles tensions, de nouveaux excitants, comme autant de stupéfiants psychiques. Tout, pourvu qu’il échappe à lui-même, tout, pourvu qu’il ne se retrouve pas seul avec lui-même, isolé du vacarme du monde extérieur et de la promiscuité avec son «prochain».”
Julius Evola, L'arco e la clava

John  Williams
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”
John Williams, Stoner

John Ashbery
“Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?
The harbor cold to the mating ships,
And you have lost as you stand by the balcony
With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath.
A strong impression torn from the descending light
But night is guilty. You knew the shadow
In the trunk was raving
But as you keep growing hungry you forget.
The distant box is open. A sound of grain
Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we
Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.”
John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath

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