I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. An...yway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the motion-picture theater, the screen at rest is a neutral, shadowy blank; at rest, the fish-eye lens of the TV screen mirrors... the room over which it presides. In both, the images are luminous, lighted as though from within, but the motion-picture images hover on or just in front of the surface of the screen. The viewer moves toward inclusion; no need for those movie-palace stunts, those three-dimensional experiments when, bicolored glasses in place, we ducked the baseball flung at us or were frozen in our seats by the locomotive that roared out of the screen and over our heads. The TV image, by contrast, recedes into its box and includes us out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience...--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both R...ooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky--who is doomed to accept it over and over again through an infinity of textbooks, with a question mark for monument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian state: here it is the great act of will, the will that moves mounta...ins, the rapture of the great will which aspires to art. The mightiest men have always inspired architects; the architect has always been under the spell of power. In his buildings, pride, the victory over gravity, and the will to power strive to become visible; architecture is a species of the rhetoric of power in forms, now persuading, even flattering, now simply commanding. The highest feeling of power and sureness finds expression in that which possesses grand style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They wait, each like a wooden decoy or soft like a pigeon or... a sweet snug duck: until one moves, moves that dart-beak breaking over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You...'re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her mane falls wild on her forehead, And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear... That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist. Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »