"The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov."

-- George Steiner

#Art Quotes #Drama Quotes #Forever Quotes

“To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.”
“Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.”
“When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.”
“Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred,that you saw yellow flowers, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love.You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.”
“In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.”

Source : Guy Davenport (1989). “A Balthus notebook”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.”
“It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.”
“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”

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