Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
Category: quote of the week
Quote for the week 21st to 27th of Jan ’07
O poeta é um fingidor.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.
→ Read more Quote for the week 14th to 20th of Jan ’07
To see with one’s own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a trim sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word- is that not glorious? → Read more
Quote for the week 7th to 13th of January ’07
…I was not meaning to suggest that people are dumb. There is such a thing as rational ignorance. It just does not pay most people to become well informed about how markets work.
→ Read more Quote for the week 31st of Dec ’06- 6th of Jan ’07
Nimic nu-l face mai steril pe un scriitor decat obsesia perfectiunii. Ca sa produci, trebuie sa-ti urmezi firea, sa te abandonezi, sa-ti asculti vocile…, sa elimini cenzura ironiei sau a bunului gust…Emil Cioran
See also the quote for the previous week. → Read more