“We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.”| The Marginalian
“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.”| The Marginalian
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw.”| The Marginalian
“It may be more difficult to reach the whirling mind of a modern reader but it is possible to cut through the noise and reach the quiet zone. In the quiet zone we may find that he is devoutly…| The Marginalian
“The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.”| The Marginalian
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”| The Marginalian
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”| The Marginalian
“The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is … to help man endure by lifting his heart.”| The Marginalian
“It’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.”| The Marginalian
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”| The Marginalian
