"There is not surrender of beauty, only an effort to find beauty by going past the typical and arriving at the common. ... The sun pours itself all over the world and over the world's things. Things are being built, or repaired, or broken. Things sit in the street, free of use. Things are on the verge of speech. Ladders rise, and angels invisibly ascend and descend." (So many ladders in this books. A few pages later: "The meaning of the ladder for Jacob was positive. But he took fright, for he knew that a ladder can take you up and bring you down.")
"We build, we correct what we have built, we break down what we have built, we build again, and correct again."
