Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 17
“Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist -- all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.”
Ch1: Amusing Ourselves to Death, p. 12
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)
"Haunted by Halloween", in the New York Times (31 October 1990).
“And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.”
Suicide note
“Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.”
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"A Portal" (1976), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)