Left Block

Famous quotes containing the words left and/or block:

“What is left after this?
what can death loose in me
after your embrace?
your touch,
your limbs are more terrible
to do me hurt.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one’s future must be hewn.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)