“It is not the poet's task, nor is it within his power, to give birth to a new religion. At most he may keep open the space or possibility for some new revelation. How this might come about—why, when, where, above all whether—remains imponderable, but there is little doubt that, in the present age, i…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.comTagged: Poetizing, Preparing A Readiness, Reconfigures
“Always dear to me this lonely hill. And I recall the eternal, and the dead seasons, and the present, living one, and the sound of her. So in this Immensity my thought drowns.”— Giacomo Leopardi, amazon.comTagged: Nature
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.”— George Lichtenberg, amazon.comTagged: Mirrors, Writing, Books, Literature, Best Reading Quotes