ancient and new shards

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. (#24)

—Friedrich Schlegel, Dialogue on Poetry & Literary Aphorisms, translation by Behler & Struc (Penn. State U. Press, 1968)

notebook

The fragments and discards left in my old notebook: the mind’s midden. [JF]

archetypes

All art is memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in artists.

—Paul Klee