Posts tagged Eben Ostby

“And even the books that do not last long, penetrate their own times at least, sailing farther than Ulysses even dreamed of, like ships on the seas. It is the author’s part to call into being their cargoes and passengers,—living thoughts and rich bales of study and jeweled ideas. And as for the publishers, it is they who build the fleet, plan the voyage, and sail on, facing wreck, till they find every possible harbor that will value their burden.” — Clarence S. Day, The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend Eben Ostby, Still Lifes: Boiled Book, 2012

“And even the books that do not last long, penetrate their own times at least, sailing farther than Ulysses even dreamed of, like ships on the seas. It is the author’s part to call into being their cargoes and passengers,—living thoughts and rich bales of study and jeweled ideas. And as for the publishers, it is they who build the fleet, plan the voyage, and sail on, facing wreck, till they find every possible harbor that will value their burden.”

— Clarence S. Day, The Story of the Yale University Press Told by a Friend

Eben Ostby, Still Lifes: Boiled Book, 2012