“In the increasingly convincing darknessThe words become palpable, like a fruitThat is too beautiful to eat. ”

“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”

“until only infinity remained of beauty”

“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.”

“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . .”

“Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless wholeLike some pocket history of the world, so generalAs to constitute a sob or wail”