Source: Swifts in a Tower (1956), p. 108, 2nd edition, 1973
“It is many years since I have wielded a weapon larger than a pen, borne anything weightier than a difficult problem in philosophy.”
Book 3, Chapter 5 “Five Heroes and a Heroine” (p. 467)
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Context: Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. I know my own powers. I am not fitted for other kinds of work, but my reading and writing, which you would have me discontinue, are easy tasks, nay, they are a delightful rest, and relieve the burden of heavier anxieties. There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away — sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come. I believe I speak but the strict truth when I claim that as there is none among earthly delights more noble than literature, so there is none so lasting, none gentler, or more faithful; there is none which accompanies its possessor through the vicissitudes of life at so small a cost of effort or anxiety.

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“A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.”
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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
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Homage to the square' (1964), Oral history interview with Josef Albers' (1968)
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in letter 03-223, Summer 1930, from Bad Salzbrunn; as quoted in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt; 2006 / new edition 2010, Books on Demand, GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany - ISBN:978-3-8448-6866-1