Rodrigo

“Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.”
― William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow and Other Poems

“No creo en el Apocalipsis, pero ya casi no veo pájaros. Se habrán hecho ceniza. No creo en el Apocalipsis, pero la Tierra terminará de mala manera: crecerá el Sol moribundo hasta alcanzarla. Hipertrofiado, más luminoso que nunca, devorará uno a uno los planetas. Quizá se adelantó y está pasando.”
― Elisa Díaz Castelo, Principia

“I think," he mumbled eventually, "I think that in order to solve the problem it is important to define it and to have some sense of what has caused it." Another empty phrase, thought Jean-Yves furiously; not only empty, but, as it happened, untrue. The causes were clearly part of general shifts in society that were beyond their powers to change. They had to adapt to this new business climate, that was all. And how could they adapt to it? This moron clearly hadn't the faintest idea.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“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