Muzzy

“Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.”
― James Merrill, A Different Person: A Memoir

“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in our own likeness. The oblique drops of rain slid down the blades of grass in the park, but it would have made no difference if they had slid up. Then the oblique (drops) turned round (drops), swallowed up by the earth underpinning the grass, and the grass and the earth seemed to talk, no, not talk, argue, their comprehensible words like crystallized spiderwebs or the briefest crystallized vomitings, a barely audible rustling, as if instead of drinking tea that afternoon, Norton had drunk a steaming cup of peyote.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Ce n'est pas pour devenir écrivain qu'on écrit. C'est pour rejoindre en silence cet amour qui manque à tout amour. C'est pour rejoindre le sauvage, l'écorché, le limpide. On écrit une langue simple. On ne fait aucune différence entre l'amour, la langue et le chant. Le chant c'est l'amour. L'amour c'est un fleuve. Il disparaît parfois. Il s'enfonce dans la terre. Il poursuit son cours dans l'épaisseur d'une langue. Il réapparaît ici ou là, invincible, inaltérable. ”
― Christian Bobin, La part manquante

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series