- Thomas Hardy in Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

"The season developed and matured. Another year's installment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles. Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings." [Ch. XX}

- Paul Klee in The Diaries 1898-1918:

"In the restaurant run by my uncle, the fattest man in Switzerland, were tables topped with polished marble slabs, whose surface displayed a maze of petrified layers. In this labyrinth of lines one could pick out human grotesques and capture them with a pencil. I was fascinated with this pastime; my 'bent for the bizarre' announced itself (nine years)."

-Mallarmé in Sonnet en ix

"Un or néfaste incite pour son beau cadre une rixe..."

Trans.: "A malevolent gold prompts a quarrel for its handsome frame."

-Octavio Paz in The Other Voice

"Poetry is governed by the twofold principle of variety within unity. In the short poem, variety is sacrificed to unity; in the long poem, it attains fullness of being without destroying unity. Thus in the long poem we find not only extension, which is a relative dimension, but also maximum variety. The extensive poem moreover, satisfies another twofold requirement, one that is closely related to the rule of variety within unity: repetition and surprise."[transl. by Helen Lane]

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Quotes from Cage

Quotes from Paz

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