Gary

“What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.”
― Edmund Wilson

“I was only a folk singer for about two years…. By that time, it wasn’t really folk music anymore. It was some new American phenomenon. Later, they called it singer/songwriters. Or art songs, which I liked best. Some people get nervous about that word. Art. They think it’s a pretentious word from the giddyap. To me, … the word art has never lost its vitality.”
― Joni Mitchell, The Music of Joni Mitchell

“We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time.”
― W.G. Sebald