“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum morbid phenomena of the most varied kind come to pass.”
Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
Art by and Photo credit: Lorenzo Quinn
Our models of “reality” are very small and tidy, the universe of experience is huge and untidy, and no model can ever include all the huge untidiness perceived by uncensored consciousness.
Robert Anton Wilson
For every poet it is always morning in the world…This is the benediction that is celebrated, a fresh language and a fresh people, and this is the frightening duty owed.
—Derek Walcott, in his Nobel lecture
“No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”
Albert Einstein