The traffic between storytelling and metaphysics is continuous.

— John Berger



Music: The Origins of Speech

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

- from Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee

Poetry Speaks in a Flash of Illumination

The Sweet-Bitter Irony