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When you read your parts
Exploring, ready to be surprised,
Look for the new and the old.
As the people say, at the moon's change of phases,
The new moon for one night
Holds the old in its arms.
-- Bertolt Brecht
One must have traveled a great deal to discover the obvious. One must have thoroughly rubbed and exhausted one's eyes in order to get rid of the thousands of scales we start with. . . . There are poets who have strived to do this . . . in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one that knows how not to know.
-- Helen Cixous
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