Decreation Quotes

“Sublime natures are seldom clean!”
― Longinus, Longinus: On the Sublime

“If Bartleby is a new Messiah, he comes not, like Jesus, to redeem what was, but to save what was not. The Tartarus into which Bartleby, the new savior, descends is the deepest level of the Palace of Destinies, that whose sight Leibniz cannot tolerate, the world in which nothing is compossible with anything else, where "nothing exists rather than something.”
― Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

“To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.”
― Helen Vendler, Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire