Reminders for myself
To memorize anything, but especially literature, is to allow it a mental field in which to call up beauty through a network of thoughts that spark and scatter below the usual range of consciousness.
William Lambert • The Most Human Sense
I forgot to remember to forget
EB White:
... See more“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and ta
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