Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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The perfect university provides sex for students, sports for alumni, and parking for faculty.
~ Clark Kerr
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It’s hardly surprising that the rapid transition to widespread remote work led to a greater quantity of digital communication. Especially in the early weeks of the pandemic, Zoom and Slack offered a lifeline of sorts for newly isolated members of the cubicle diaspora. But it’s striking that, even as work returned to a more stable rhythm, with more time spent back in physical offices, the amount of digital communication has remained high.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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There’s no war that will end all wars.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain
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As with taxation and relations between the sexes, higher education is essentially and continuously contested territory. Given the history of that crisis rhetoric, one’s natural response to the current cries of desperation might reasonably be one of boredom.
~ John Searle
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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