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"It was reading Hume, that awakened me from my dogmatic slumber..."
Immanuel Kant

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"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."
Virginia Woolf

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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few."
Emily Dickinson

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"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!"
Emily Dickinson

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"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
Sun Ra

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"An anti-Communist is a dog. I couldn't see any way out of that one and I never will."
Jean-Paul Sartre

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"By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide."
Jean Genet

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"The poet cannot stay too long in the stratosphere of the Verb."
René Char

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"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition."
Barack Obama

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"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away."
J. D. Salinger

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"Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
Susan Sontag

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"But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future. When they come to an end of it, the poor wretches realize too late that for all this time they have been preoccupied in doing nothing."
Seneca

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''Indeed, now that I have fixed my eyes upon it, I feel that I have grasped a plank in the sea; I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades. Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of...''
Virginia Woolf

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"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf

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''When we speak the word 'life', it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.''
Antonin Artaud

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"Accumulate, then distribute. Of the mirror of the universe be the part that is densest, most useful and least apparent."
René Char

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"He who is the disciple of Khidr [an invisible master] possesses sufficient inner strength to seek freely the teaching of all masters. Of this the biography of Ibn 'Arabi, who frequented all the masters of his day and welcomed their teachings, offers living proof."
Ibn al-'Arabi
translation and adaptation: Henry Corbin

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"There is a truth of exile and there is a vocation of exile."
Maurice Blanchot

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''Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.''
Emily Dickinson

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''The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.''
Simone Weil