Wednesday, December 28, 2011
What is required is a new mindset that might see the design of infrastructure not as simply performing to minimum engineering standards, but as capable of triggering complex and unpredictable urban and architectural effects in excess of its designed capacity.
— Stan Alan, Landform Building
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Land in the Mohave Desert.
Sing for the sun.
— Cold War Kids, “Audience”
Monday, December 26, 2011
If this book’s argument is correct, then the covert subject of most poetry for the last three centuries has been the anxiety of influence, each poet’s fear that no proper work remains for him to perform.
— Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence
Sunday, December 25, 2011
We should acknowledge that the question of what is beautiful is both impossible to elucidate and shameful and even undemocratic to mention.
— Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
Saturday, December 24, 2011
It’s a challenge for us to recover a sense of value.
— Michael Manfredi, Landform Building
Friday, December 23, 2011
There are no interpretations but only misinterpretations, and so all criticism is prose poetry.
— Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence
