A poem is like a heavy weight that the poet has carried to the roof bit by bit. The reader is a passer-by upon whom the weight is dropped all at once and who consequently receives from it in a moment an overwhelming impression, a complete aesthetic effect, such as the poet has never known in composing it.
(Source: jackrusher)
Sartre pointed out that the trouble with narrative is that it secretly begins at the end: the preordained telos shapes and selects and shines the light of significance over all that precedes it.
ps WIBBLE EXCUSE ME WHAT IS THIS.
(Source: onlylostphysics)
We need to test radically different things. We don’t know what works. Destroy all assumptions. We need to find what works and keep iterating — keep learning.
