"A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travellers to exotic destinations. The surest – also the quickest – way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves, is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before."
–– Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: Dialoghi con Leuco, 1947, cited in The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, 1992.
via Sketchbook 12, 2010, p. 133
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