Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach this... hidden text to her daughter. The mother's warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sky calls To the deaf earth. The proverbial disarray... Of morning corrects itself as you stand up. You are wearing a text.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have at last written another [play, i.e., Endgame].... Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to... claw, more inhuman than "Godot."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him... who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: i...t is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails... Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas, alas for Hamelin! There came into many a burgher's pate... A text which says that Heaven's Gate Opes to the rich at as easy rate As the needle's eye takes a camel in!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which... Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »