“If you have trouble conceptualizing eternity, spill a big bowl of cooked couscous on the floor and try sweeping it up.”
Dana Stevens
more info“At the right there was an old House—the window was open. We could see a table with a greenish oil cloth, on it a long bread, a bottle of wine, heavy white plates. We could only see the old hands of the people who were eating. A hand passed a basket with 2 peaches on it. It was all the paintings of the world, quiet, resisting time, everlasting. It is the only image of duration and eternity I have seen in a long time.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: letter to Felix Pollak dated July 18, 1958 in Arrows of Longing (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), 128–29.
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medium: letter
notes: Felix Pollak (1909–1987) was an American poet
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