4 Helpful Hints at Dusk

"Everything on television is educational in the sense that it teaches something."
--Richard Serra, Television Delivers People (1973)

"I could love myself if thou didst but speak to me, O God! If thou wouldst tell me that I am fulfilling a task imposed by thee, I could make myself walk through rough roads forever."
--George Sand, Diary

"I admit that unweeded soil grows wondrous things, which nobody can predict. And these things we have in abundance. But it would be a rash man who would call it a harvest."
--Jacques Barzun, "The Centrality of Reading" (1971)




From Jorge Luis Borges, "A Profession of Literary Faith" (1926):

"Everything is poetic that confesses.... I have conquered my poverty, recognizing among thousands the nine or ten words that get along with my soul; I have already written more than one book in order to write, perhaps, one page. The page that justifies me, that summarizes my destiny, the one that perhaps only the attending angels will hear when Judgment Day arrives.
"Simply: the page that, at dusk, upon the resolved truth of day's end, at sunset, with its dark and fresh breeze and girls glowing already along its streets, I would dare to read for a friend."