"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Mystery Quotes #Reason Quotes #Irrational Quotes

“The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.”
“To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.”
“Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.94, Penguin
“Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.”
“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”
“I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.”
“I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.”
“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.”

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