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title: "2 Becomes Quotes By Teju Cole"
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> [In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/in-a-transtromer-poem-you-inhabit-space-differently-a-body-becomes-a/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

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> [Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's space. Because there is something deep inside of us that responds to cared for language, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/lyrical-poetry-is-not-a-big-part-of-most-people-s-lives-twitter-now/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

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## More by Teju Cole

> [One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/one-of-the-difficulties-of-photography-is-that-it-is-much-better-at/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/note-taking-is-important-to-me-a-week-s-worth-of-reading-notes-or/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/it-s-an-obama-book-certainly-i-was-delighted-and-astonished-to-hear/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/because-i-m-an-art-historian-i-have-some-experience-of-writing-that/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/for-purposes-of-marketing-writers-are-designated-as-poets-novelists/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/most-of-the-people-around-me-yesterday-were-middle-aged-or-old-i-am/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [“I look at his hands. In those hands is new knowledge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/i-look-at-his-hands-in-those-hands-is-new-knowledge/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/the-mind-roams-more-widely-in-the-dark-than-it-does-in-light-it-is-no/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/each-person-must-on-some-level-take-himself-as-the-calibration-point/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/writing-as-writing-writing-as-rioting-writing-as-righting-on-the-best/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [“The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten...Generations rushed through the eye of the needle, and I, one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/the-site-was-a-palimpsest-as-was-all-the-city-written-erased/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/as-i-contemplated-the-silent-world-before-me-i-thought-of-the-many/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/always-say-no-pun-intended-to-draw-attention-to-the-intended-pun/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/in-a-sense-open-city-is-a-kind-of-wunderkammer-one-of-those-little/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

> [One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teju-cole/one-of-the-chief-characteristics-of-a-mob-is-its-quickness-it-is/)

[Teju Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teju-cole/)

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