“There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.” PeopleBookIdeasFormCoursesPleasureVisionPiecesShadowWindowGlassesBoardsPeculiarAestheticEssaysLecturesStained GlassSyllabus Book:The Children's Book Source: The Children's Book
“Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.” WayWritingFormCreativeSublimeCreative WritingPsychotherapy Author:A. S. Byatt
“I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)” SelfChristianFormUniverseWorryAccountsDeceptionSelf DeceptionAnthropomorphism Author:A. S. Byatt
“He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.” HardBeautifulFormTreeWindShapesMassCloudsInvisibleFlamesBranchesResolveThreadBentTwistedNeedlesMeltingMixingRibbonsWaterfallsTwigsSkylinesTrickstersBare Trees Book:Ragnarok: the End of the Gods Source: Ragnarok: the End of the Gods
