The traffic between storytelling and metaphysics is continuous.

— John Berger



Language: Impure | Zbigniew Herbert

A. But language is a common medium of communication for all people.

B. That’s exactly where the problem lies. Language is an impure instrument of expression. Tortured on a daily basis, made banal, subjected to base treatment. So the dream of poets is to reach the virgin meaning of words, to give things their proper names, as Norwid says. “Let words mean only what they mean and not against whom they are used.”

— Zbiegniew Herbert, The Collected Prose

Creative Work: A Practice | Seth Godin

Books: The Unspoken Promise | William Zinsser