Tuesday, April 17, 2012

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel.
~Susan Sontag

3 comments:

Beth said...

“…a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel.”
This struck a chord. I think that’s exactly what I get from my reading.

Alexis @ Reflections of a Bookaholic said...

So true. I wish more people realized this.

Trish said...

Yes. Thoughtful silence is difficult to come by these days.