Frasi di Martha Cooley

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Martha Cooley

Martha Cooley, scrittrice statunitense.

Frasi Martha Cooley

„Ho riletto T. S. Eliot, nella bella edizione rilegata che Roberta mi ha regalato prima di partire. Avevo quasi dimenticato com'è esaltante Eliot, quante riflessioni riesce ad affollare nei Quattro Quartetti. La conoscenza impone una trama, e falsifica perché la trama ogni momento è nuova.“

— Martha Cooley
da L'archivista

Sull'arte

„Poesia: il luogo dove incontro ciò che non è nella memoria ma sorge da una specie di istinto, sotterraneo, creativo. Riconoscimento di qualcosa che non so di sapere; qualcosa che so mentre scrivo, quando una poesia comincia a prender forma, ad asserire una realtà, sorprendente ma stranamente familiare.“

— Martha Cooley
da L'archivista

„In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not to judge them; simply to see to their proper dissemination.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew -- in the incontestable way that children know things -- that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.

Between people it is less clear what is owed. Yet perhaps what is love is really an empathetic and hungry imagination. One must be willing to enter other stories -- even terrifying or dangerous ones, or those of uncertain outcomes.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

„My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man in charge of the University's entire collection -- is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.“

— Martha Cooley
The Archivist

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