December 2011
16 posts
“Tell your secrets.”
– Allen Ginsberg, when asked, “How does one become a prophet?” Recalled by Lewis Hyde in Trickster Makes This World, where he writes “Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter...
“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around...”
– Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon)
“The secret of dreams is that subject and object are the same. The object is...”
– Joseph Campbell (via iseesigils)
