8.31.2008

where word is god

Even more than in the poem, it is in the aphorism that the word is god.

—E. M. Cioran, Drawn and Quartered, translated by Richard Howard, Arcade Publishing, 1971

1 comment:

William Michaelian said...

The distance between two words was something he had not considered, until the distance became so great that the intervening silence made him wonder if he was a poet at all.

And so he set sail to find out.