"It seems proper that those who create art in a civilization of quasi-barbarism which has made so many homeless, which has torn up tongues and peoples by the root, should themselves be poets unhoused and wanderers across language." --George Steiner, Extraterritorial (1971)

"For Neoplatonism, evil has no metaphysical reality, but Gnosticism engaged evil as the reality of this world, which presumably is why Gnosticism now lives, under a variety of disguises, while Neoplatonism is the province of scholars." --Harold Bloom, Kabbalah and Criticism

'There chaunced the like errour to the Greekes, and to the Latines, in the woord Phos, the which signifieth a Man [phi omega sigma], and the Lighte [phi omega-with-a-tilde sigma = phi alpha omicron sigma]: wherupon the Priestes of the Saturnalia in times paste being deceived in the ambiguite of the woorde, offered everie yeere a man to Saturnus, when they mighte aswell have appeased him with burninge of lightes.' --Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences (1569 translation; reprinted 1974)

"Spelling is defunct..." --Liber AL Vel Legis