“Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.”
Calvin Tomkins
“When waiting for a text from the person you love it feels as though a second is an hour but when you are with that person an hour feels like a second.”
Germangirl24
“To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.”
Henry James
“A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical”
William Shenstone
“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
Walter Benjamin
