“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― The City & the City
― The City & the City
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Phaedrus
― Phaedrus
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.”
― 2666
― 2666
“I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.”
― Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
― Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
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