“Multiple incompatible hypotheses are needed to provide an adequate account of any phenomenon – aesthetic, material or psychological… which of course means no explanation at all”
“All literature, highbrow or low, from (at least) the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…All novels are sequels; influence is bliss”
“You must talk with two tongues, if you do not wish to cause confusion”
“Unknowing does not come before knowing but very long after”
-Edmond Jabes-
“Human speech is made of words that have been created a long time ago; those words are preserved in dictionaries, but poets and writers change”
-Viktor Shklovsky-
“I wanted to read. Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be a blank and be filled in.”
-Alan Jacobs-
All my Words are Silent 
Oh loved all of them,the Alan Jacobs one is my fav…want to share a quote with you..
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov
“Unknowing does not come before knowing but very long after” -Edmond Jabes
this is zen. or Picasso at 90 drawing like a 5 year old
indeed 🙂