“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“that process of miraculous verisimilitude, that great copying which evolution has followed, repeating move for move every move that it made in the past”
― The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
― The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
“We communicate to each other depthlessly, without the words we use.”
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“Words go on failing and failing,”
― The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius
― The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius
“and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.”
― Song of Myself
― Song of Myself
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