Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
There is a certain poverty in our critic. We assume that there are only few great men, and that the remaining are small; that there is only one Homer, only one Shakespeare, only one Newton, only one Socrates. But the soul, in its radiant hours, doesn't recognize these usurpations. We should know how to praise Socrates, or Plato, or St. John, without impoverishing.
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    Posted by: 0kiika0
    We are the digital archives of the African Pilocene, even of the Devon seas; we are the keepers of the wisdom of the times long gone. One could spend a whole life reading this ancient library and die without feeling full of its wonders.
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