Peter

“The lesson for this Round, as we shall hear time and again, is that each generation inhabits a different acoustic universe, constituted by different musics and memories of sound, by different thicknesses of walls and densities of traffic, by different means of manufacture and broadcast, by different diets and ear-damaging diseases, by different proportions and preponderances of metal rattling in kitchens, clanging on the streets, or ringing in the ( differently polluted) air above.”
― Hillel Schwartz, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond

“Uw brief uit Siwa viel op mijn grauwe leven neer, als een rozeblaadje op het oppervlak van een troebele beek.”
― Iwam Toergenjew

“I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.”
― Clementine von Radics

“Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.”
― Jerry Saltz