Kathe Coleman

“The invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Forget family, or ethnic and religious groupings: corporations have supplanted all these as the primary structure of the modern tribe.”
― Tom McCarthy, Satin Island

“The progress of the sciences toward theories of fundamental unity, cosmic symmetry (as in the unified field theory)—how do such theories differ, in the end, from that unity which Plato called “unspeakable” and “indiscribable,” the holistic knowledge shared by so many peoples of the earth, Christians included, before the advent of the industrial revolution made new barbarians of the peoples of the West? In the United States, before spiritualist foolishness at the end of the last century confused mysticism with “the occult” and tarnished both, William James wrote a master work of metaphysics; Emerson spoke of “the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One . . .”; Melville referred to “that profound silence, that only voice of God”; Walt Whitman celebrated the most ancient secret, that no God could be found “more divine than yourself.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard