The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.
We live for books.
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.