“‘To write is to participate in the struggle to efface oneself” (p. 14).

“Can mysticism be said to live on for us in the experience of art and as the experience of art? If so, such art will be premised upon its own negation. … As [T. S.] Eliot said in a speech to would-be poets in 1960, if poetry were ever to reach its goal, it would “annihilate poetry” (pp. 211-212).
– Simon Critchley, On Mysticism, 2024