Alice Notley | Alma, or The Dead Women
““The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don’t write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.””
— Stanisław Lem, “Hospital of the Transfiguration” (via secondwing)
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…”
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (via books-n-quotes)
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