The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity. — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
“In the Novel He described her mouth as full of ashes. So when he kissed her finally he was thinking about ashes and the blacker rim just below the edge of the ashtray, and the faint dark rim that outlined her lips, and the lips themselves, at the limit of another darkness, farther and far more interior. Then the way… — Susan Stewart Copy Share
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
“The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.” — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of the referent… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
