Transcendence Within

“It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong.”
― James Kestrel, Five Decembers

“I can’t bear these accounts I read in the Times and elsewhere of these poetry slams, in which various young men and women in various late-spots are declaiming rant and nonsense at each other. The whole thing is judged by an applause meter which is actually not there, but might as well be. This isn’t even silly; it is the death of art.”
― Harold Bloom

“(The Romans have set fire to the Library of Alexandria)

THEODOTUS: —What is burning there is the memory of mankind.
CAESAR: —A shameful memory. Let it burn.
THEODOTUS (wildly): —Will you destroy the past?
CAESAR: —Ay, and build the future with its ruins.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace