Erich Heller - Quotations

Quotations

• Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that.
• We have not yet grasped the demonic possibilities of mediocrity.
• No lasting universe of beauty was built from the fragments of creation.
• The notorious obscurity of modern poetry is due to the absence from our lives of commonly accepted symbols to represent and house our deepest feelings.
• Experience is not in the impressions we receive; it is in making sense.
• The workshops in which our truths are manufactured are surrounded by swarms of unemployed affections.
• All relevant objective truths are born and die as absurdities. They come into being as the monstrous claim of an inspired rebel and pass away with the eccentricity of a superstitious crank.
• At the end there may be neither words nor deeds, but merely, for all we know, a slight disease, a rash of matter that matters little to so robust a body of nothingness.