SewaneeLetters
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“There was something oddly restful about fireflies. He couldn’t put his finger on it but he drew comfort from it anyway. The way they’d seemed not separate entities but a single being, a moving river of light that flowed about the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion over the provinces of night.” — William Gay, Provinces of Night -
“I declare to god, if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob.” — Flann O’Brien” -
“You won’t find your passion, but your passion will find you.” — Honorary Degree Recipient David Brooks at Sewanee Baccalaureate, May 2013 -
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” — Graham Greene The End of the Affair -
“One of them talked to me a few times but we couldn’t really communicate, all I understood was his obsessive comparison between Rome and Washington, and that he seemed to believe that Poe was a French writer.” — Michael Herr, Dispatches -
“And God said
Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen.”— T S Eliot, Ash-Wednesday -
“His soul had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead.” — James Joyce, The Dead -
“Actually, all their calendric series, like those of their history, are connected without a break, so as not to disrupt the cosmic order.” — Raphael Girard, Esotericism of the Popol Vuh -
“It’s a brilliant word to assign to a genre, because it has a kind of formal uncertainty built into it, into the very name, “an attempt,” like an attempt on a mountain. Already it implies improvisation, it implies variation. Some Latin American literary critic that my friend Ron Briggs was telling me about said, “The essay is the least stable of the literary genres.” — — John Jeremiah Sullivan on having his writing described by the word ESSAY, http://wagsrevue.com/13/interviews/sullivan1 -
If you’re thinking about graduate school in literature or creative writing, you should think about Sewanee if what you value is an intense experience in a close community with a tremendous faculty. Spend six weeks in a rich literary environment where you’ll eat, sleep and breathe the life of letters.
— John Grammer, Director, Sewanee School of Letters
