Jan
29
“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives. For only the more feeble and distracted take an inimitable pleasure in closure, feeling that their lives have thereby been given back to them. For the genius, each caesura and the heavy blows of fate fall like gentle sleep into his workshop labour. Around it he draws a charmed circle of fragments.”
Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street.
