A quotation is not an excerpt. A quotation is a cicada. It is part of its nature never to quiet down.
—Osip Madelstam, “Conversation about Dante,” Selected Poems (New York Review of Books, 2004), translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin.
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tissue of quotations
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author/God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.
—Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” (1968), Image-Music-Text (London: Fontana Press, 1977), trans. S. Heath.
—Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” (1968), Image-Music-Text (London: Fontana Press, 1977), trans. S. Heath.
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