
Vol. I, Letter 1
Letters That Have Helped Me (1891)
Vol. I, Letter 1
Letters That Have Helped Me (1891)
“Those that can Help, to Hurt may find a way.”
Fab. LVI: Of the Eagle and the Beetle
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
Source: Report of the Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad to the Stockholders (1856), p. 44; Cited in Vose (1857, p. 454), and Pickenpaugh (1998, p. 18)
After a mobile phone rang at his talk at Moscow State University (3 March 2008)
2000s
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.