Rodrigo

“To write criticism that places itself beyond verification or challenge is to define criticism as an art, not a science, and to define that art in terms of art rather than scientifically. Exercised on its own terms, without reference to business or scholarship, such a practice defies the use of pull-quotes and advertising blurbs as much as term papers and dissertations; it usually becomes impossible, in fact, to appropiate or adapt it for any purpose other than its own. Refusing to reach for final conclusions about anything⁠—the ultimate aim of marketplace and university criticism alike⁠—it can only revel and luxuriate in its own activity, hoping at best merely to keep up with rather than master the art that it engages.”
― Jonathan Rosenbaum, Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism

“Resulta su compañía tan enfadosa que a su lado se explica uno los horrores de todas las revoluciones.”
― Julio Torri, De fusilamientos

“y allí donde existía una morada estable
se presenta una construcción imaginaria,
forma que depende sólo del pensamiento
—como erigida toda y solamente
en la imaginación.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duineser Elegien

“(...) He pipes a world of snakes,
Of sways and coilings, from the snake-rooted bottom
Of his mind. (...)”
― Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and Other Poems