Unknown. Western Wind

Famous quotes containing the words unknown, western and/or wind:

    A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
    Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

    For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.
    Jacques Attali (b. 1943)

    By measure. It was word and note,
    The wind the wind had meant to be
    A little through the lips and throat.
    The aim was song the wind could see.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)