“The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.” WorldMomentsPoetBrotherBusyDustBuried Author:Edith Sitwell
“Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.” MenFeelsHas BeensMomentsRememberRealizingPiecesParticularLaysTreasureCertaintyBuriedDelightfulCould Have Been Author:Eugene Delacroix
“As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.” KnowsWorldWayWritingFirstsMomentsTodayLinesPowerfulCitiesLaughingRecordsPiecesStreetsTearsListeningBuriedAnarchySweatRollingRottenConsumingEarthquakesAntichristCity StreetsJohnny Rotten Author:Greil Marcus
“Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?” WorldShouldMomentsThis WorldBrokenMiracleBuriedRecallsPorcelain Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections