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when we read a sentence in a book, no real person utters it: the voice is not to be located, “and yet it is perfectly read…because the true locus of w

I don’t want to absorb art to fulfill my own ego, I want to experiment with ways to be absorbed by it all. The way forward is precisely in valuing the

The world sheds, in the energetic way of an open and communal place, its many greetings, as a world should. What quarrel can there be with that? But t

In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who are the world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Whi

As we grow older, the “serious” becomes a simulacrum for wisdom and even honor. Impoverished by the honor withheld from us in childhood, we become ver

Simone Weil said, “Man only escapes from the laws of this world in lightning flashes. Instants when everything stands still, instants of contemplation

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. – Ralph