vollmann-view

Too much contemplation of any object, however unwilling the gaze, may reveal a secret. Better to change the angle of view as often as possible.

“When wine runs low, it is not worth the sparing;

The worst and least doth to the bottom dive:

Wrong not thy leisure, years vouchsafe, in daring:

But sometimes look into thy grave, alive.”

Joshua Sylvester | from the French of Pierre Mathieu