Distillation Quotes
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.
