Nicholas Mosley quotes

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. (Nicholas Mosley)
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. View quote
Nicholas Mosley
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious. View quote
Nicholas Mosley
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. View quote
Nicholas Mosley
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. View quote
Nicholas Mosley