David Malouf Quotes

Words his soul danced to.

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.