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"I dig my hands into the absolute. The surface breaks..."
— Jorie Graham, from "The Visible World"
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George Prochnik, "Schopenhauer: The Sound of Unsparing Rage Against Noise":
"His argument is that a great intellect has precisely one distinguishing feature: the ability to concentrate on a single subject for a long period of time. Noise more than any other phenomenon means distraction from this process of burrowing deeper down into the marrow of a thought..."
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Eugene Richards (via onlinebrowsing)
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"It is in the gap, in separation, in the silence that challenges our existence, that we are human.
It is in music that we dream of an original unity."
— Edmond Jabès, quoted in Rosmarie Waldrop’s Lavish Absence, 2002
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"It is easy to lose, through meddling or neglect, an entire aspect of existence. And sometimes, to cultivate a single new thought, you need not only silence but an entirely new life."
— Jennifer Moxley, from "The Atrophy of Private Life"
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Study for Terretektorh (distribution of musicians) by Iannis Xenakis, 1965. Diagram for an 88-member orchestra scattered among its audience. (via i12bent; notationnotes)
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"The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace."
— Arabian proverb