Stefan

“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des Boutiques Obscures

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
― Umberto Eco

“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead