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That chapter on Dorothea’s reflections in Rome… fuck me, that’s the stuff

“Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers, but, dressed in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out the common store according to their appetite.”

“The text, whether of prophet or poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

“The child bent becomes the bender”

“And where there had been
just a makeshift hut to receive the music,

a shelter nailed up out of their darkest longing,
with an entryway that shuddered in the wind—
you built a temple deep inside their hearing.”
- The Sonnets to Orpheus, “I, 1”

“True singing is a different breath, about
nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind.”
- ibid, “I, 3”

“For beauty is nothing/
but the beginning of terror…”

You can’t record quotes for a book on the mobile app, so I thought I might do so in an update.

“In ‘appearing’ to signify, language does the opposite.”