moonscapes amid the civilized world (Karl Schlögel)
movement that might be carved into infinity (Deleuze)
improvised treasures (Didion)
a shaped utterance (Glück)
late among the living (Gass)
airy nothings (Shakespeare)
organs of attention (de Quincey)
reception in a state of distraction (Walter Benjamin)
piling up pieces of paper to find the words (George Oppen)
an eventual book (Marguerite Duras)
community of feeling (Georges Poulet)
the allusive field of writing (Barthes)
temporal baggage (Sven Birkerts)
internal caption (Jefferson Hunter)
the complete derangement of the senses (Rimbaud)
reversal of fortune (Sven Birkerts)
the prisonhouse of language (Christopher Collins)
peripheral awareness (Christopher Collins)
the anonymity of a murmur (Foucault)
an unraveling of pictorial surfaces into lines (Flusser)
mutual arising (Normal Bryson)
in the splendor of a permanent revolution of language (Barthes)
history’s obstructions (Flusser)
The universe (which others call the Library) (Borges)
creative geography (Kuleshov)
amplification through simplification (Scott McCloud)
the eruption of dream into study (Mallarme)
luminous concreteness (Nietzsche)
the charge of linguistic imperialism (Mieke Bal)
become a perfect echo (Cézanne)
lunatic borderland (Siri Hustvedt)
colorless writing (Barthes)
the irritation that causes the pearl (Rosemarie Waldrop)
thoughts that never touch each other (Elias Canetti)
writing as a question of writing (Blanchot)
combinatory play (Einstein)
gestures of the idea (Mallarmé)
all formulas are suspect (Carole Maso)
background feelings (Antonio Damasio)
mosaic vision (?)
the circle of fragments (Barthes)
an ellipse of language (Barthes)
the primordial chaos of sensations (William James)
a succession of automatic world projections (Stanley Cavell)
willing bondage (Lewis Hyde)
anarchist property (Lewis Hyde)
disciplined intoxication (Max Beckmann)
a holiday in sense (Denis Donoghue)
eye-shaped world (Borges)
everything is translation at every level, in every direction (Michaux)
structures of feeling
involuntary collaboration (Enrique Vila-Matas)
literary vampirism (Enrique Vila-Matas)
chamber of writing for unoccupied persons (Walser)
to be in error and to cast it out (William Blake)
message from an absent sender (Christopher Collins)
the emperor of one idea (Wallace Stevens)
a kind of practical poetry (Adam Phillps on psychoanalysis)
man’s impulse to clothe the chaos of the phenomenal world in stable images (Hayden White)
the image rhymes (Guy Davenport)
the constructive imagination (R.G. Collingwood)
the bibliography is the medium (Susan Howe)
memory’s privileged time (Andreas Huyssen)
an image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties (Djuna Barnes)
writer’s task: to read what is hidden (Edmond Jabes)
one who loves and loves again (Barthes’s definition of the amateur)
a sort of Personal Atlas (Luigi Ghirri)
the ‘gravity’ that burdens the spirit (Sontag on Bresson’s characters)
the automatic writing of the world (Rosalind Krauss)
conflagrations of clarity (Rilke)
halo of indefiniteness (Eco)
at the threshold of profane vision (Merleau-Ponty)
overcoming of the human (Nietzsche)
my mind to me a mangle is (Creeley)
pre-reflective lived experience (Seamus Heaney)
an insistent thereness (Graham Clarke)
a picture tells me itself (Wittgenstein)
composing a life (Mary Catherine Bateson)
a conspiracy of cartographers (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
an eye unruled (Stan Brakhage)
a mind devouring itself in endless self-reflection (Joseph Tabbi, on Agape Agape)
an archive of longings (Sontag, on her library)
an eye at the edge of discourse (Lyotard)
textual indigestion (Richard Sieburth on Benjamin)
the historian as cannibal (Richard Sieburth on Benjamin)
modest recording device (Breton)
straddling the contradictions (Empson)
labyrinths of linkages (Tolstoy)
energy of delusion (Tolstoy)
a signal through the flames (Artaud)
a sparrow in a prison cell (Peter Brook)
self-created hazardous work (Houdini)
silence amounts to the same thing (Robert Grenier)
the difficult whole (Robert Venturi)
experiments in living (J.S. Mill)
what we call form is love (Ernst Toller)
an invention without a future (Lumiere)
failure on the move (E.M. Cioran)
standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe (E.M. Forster, on Constantin Cavafy)
critical intimacy (Spivak)
the theater of all my struggles and ideas (Benjamin on the Arcades Project)
a memory stain (Charles Baxter)
our unwitting biography (Pierce Lewis, on landscape)
a door shuts in my head (Jean Rhys)
no art without world (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
nothing will have taken place except the place (Mallarmé)
some nameless system of relationships (Mallarmé)
to make something where and when before there was nothing (Susan Stewart)
this soil’d world (Whitman)
consensual self-abandonment (Emilie Gomart and Antoine Hennion)
the surprise that peels away from the flux of things (Antoine Hennion)
inertia of feeling (Hermann Broch)
the world perceived and grasped as picture (Heidegger)
an unending rainfall of images (Calvino)
contrived depthlessness (Frederic Jameson)
to make visible how the world touches us (Cézanne)
the prose of the world (Hegel)
now of recognizability (Benjamin)
every force evolves a form (Guy Davenport)
region beyond even distance (Faulkner)
dummy life (Rilke, on American culture)
supplemental memory (Jonathan Swift)
burn away all the peripherals (Sylvia Plath)
an attempt to organize delirium (Pierre Boulez)
every something is an echo of nothing (John Cage)
retrospective redefinition (David Shields)
try to praise the mutilated world (Adam Zagajewski)
guided chance (Pierre Boulez)
beyond the sphere of thought (Engels)
erased imperatives (Elaine Scarry)
compressed worlds (Alice Fulton)
felt sense (Eugene Gendlin)
distinct oscillation (Jean-Luc Nancy)
transcendent documents (Walker Evans)
unstaged reality (Kracauer)
a spell cast upon actual creatures of nature (Arnheim)
extreme clarity is a mystery (Darwish)
persistent present (Spivak)
concentrated eternity (Emerson)
a gathering web of insinuations (Henry Green)
that very jar on the nerves (Virginia Woolf)
a discipline of rightness (Wallace Stevens)
fossil poetry (Emerson)
the capacity for a productive reaction against one’s training (Bernard Berenson)
result of chance; fruit of calculation (Octavio Paz)
process is not magic (Charles Eames)
blooming, buzzing confusion (William James)
serious noticing (James Wood)
sedentary power (John Berger)
radical decentering (Elaine Scarry)
a painting that tells you where to stand (Foucault, on Velázquez’s La Meninas)
collapsed act (G.H. Mead)
diligent indolence (Marion Milner)
negative effort (Simone Weil)
the steady accretion of sentiment (Yi-Fu Tuan)
another more mysterious dimension (Weil)
fantasy mechanism (Iris Murdoch)
thinking the mesh (Timothy Morton)
the wish to be caught up in an idea (Glück)
the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of love for which there can be no explanation (Merton)
perspicuous representation (Wittgenstein)