Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we too would become Taliban.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

The good of a book lies in its being read.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.