Notes From A Room
Blog URL http://www.notesfromaroom.com
Located Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom
Tags writing, fiction, poetry, religion, books, writers, prose, philosophy, literature
Prose, poetry, quotes.
Latest Blog Posts
- on Nov 20, 2009 in Tarkovsky
The aim of art is to prepare a person for death. – Tarkovsky...
- on Nov 19, 2009 in Tarkovsky
‘Have you come to pray for a baby too? Or to be spared them?’ ‘I’m just looking.’ ‘If there are any casual onlookers who aren’t supplicants, then nothing happens.’ ‘What is supposed to happen?’ ‘Whatever you like, whatever you n...
- A profound enough gaze on Nov 19, 2009 in Hofmannsthal
It is not that the poet thinks ceaselessly of all the things in the world; they think of him. They are in him, they dominate him. Even his arid hours, his depressions, his dismay are impersonal moods; they correspond to the jags on a seismograph, and...
- on Nov 19, 2009 in Writing
‘I interrupted you, I fell in love with my own voice. I grew impatient, listened for you and heard nothing. I grew patient in my impatience, you were here already.’...
- on Nov 19, 2009 in Writing
‘You’re the forbidden, what I mustn’t look at. Having looked, I can’t live without looking back. By looking I lose you and lose myself, and losing myself becomes my life.’...
- on Nov 19, 2009 in Writing
‘You’re source and loss, sin and salvation, there’s no rite to master you. You’re behind and between, I looked at you and lost you. You looked at me and freed me from myself.’ ...
- Sterility on Nov 19, 2009 in Blanchot
The leap is inspiration’s form or movement. This form or this movement makes inspiration unjustifiable. But in this form or movement inspiration also comes into its own: its principle characteristic is affirmed in this inspiration which is at the s...
