Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.
~ Harold Bloom ~
"Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.
Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.
"Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".
Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".
"The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
"Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
"Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.
Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.
"Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.
Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.
