Tag: Quote

Let me note all the sickening waste of today, that I shall not be easy with myself and compromise my tomorrows.

A book is a magnifying glass of a moment, a poem is a match

Dress and act ordinary and you produce ordinary students.

We think best when we bring opposites together, when we realize that all these realities, one inside the other, are somehow connected. That’s how the wonder and amazement that are so necessary to both poetry and philosophy come about. A “truth” detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen—and then in bed, of course.

Mu is an ancient word for ‘mother,’ and sic is just an abbreviation for the word ‘science.’ So, put together, Music means ‘the mother of all sciences.’

Very often generalizations are like a blank in a form that you can fill out.

There’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come

“All construction comes from weaving.”

“Architecture is the ultimate erotic art, carry it to excess.”

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.