A Great Blankness That Inspires Awe

“In other words, you cannot observe a wave without bearing in mind the complex features that concur in shaping it, and the equally complex ones that the wave itself originates.”

“The chief problem presented by the sheer phenomenon of aesthetic force, in whatever form and in result of whatever skill it may come, is how to place it within other modes of social activity, how to incorporate it into the texture of a particular pattern of life.”

“Regarded as a species of poetry, drama is therefore the formation of the word as something that moves between beings, the mystery word and answer. Essential to it is the fact of the tension between word and answer — the fact, namely, that two men never mean the same things by the words that they use, that there is, therefore, no pure reply, that at each point of the conversation, therefore, understanding and misunderstanding are interwoven —from which come the interplay of openness and closeness, expression and reserve.”