Francis Ponge Quotes

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.