
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 17
Ch1: Amusing Ourselves to Death, p. 12
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 17
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
G 30
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.”
Unsourced
"A Portal" (1976), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)