Marked With Quotations

Quotes that I post and reblog from books, poems, plays, writers, and the occasional film.

"The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art. The magic I can make is small magic now, deferred magic. Every day I work, but nothing ever materializes. I feel like Penelope, weaving and unweaving."

—  Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

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Posted on 21 September, 2012

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