Sven Birkerts Quotes
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“To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened ones essential position [in life].”
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I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.
— Sven Birkerts
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.
— Sven Birkerts
Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
— Sven Birkerts
I read books to read myself.
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— Sven Birkerts
“A poem is a construction of inner space.
Language is to inner space as light is to material space.”
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— Sven Birkerts
“Where am I when I am involved in a book?”
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The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.
— Sven Birkerts
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