As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sle… - William H. Gass
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sle…
- William H. Gass
Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one i… - William H. Gass
Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one i…
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word - William H. Gass
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
What else is soul but a listener? - William H. Gass
What else is soul but a listener?
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things. - William H. Gass
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. - William H. Gass
Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal - William H. Gass
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. - William H. Gass
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. - William H. Gass
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
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