If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensificatio… - Sven Birkerts
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensificatio…
- Sven Birkerts
Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now. - Sven Birkerts
Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now.
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. - Sven Birkerts
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny. - Sven Birkerts
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up … - Sven Birkerts
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up …
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for… - Sven Birkerts
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for…
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. - Sven Birkerts
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.
Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. - Sven Birkerts
Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in… - Sven Birkerts
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in…
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