“Now she is a good example of a sentence without words.”
—Gertrude Stein, from “More Grammar Genia Berman,” in Portraits and Prayers (1934)
“But I like the inconveniences.”
“We don’t,” said the Controller. “We prefer to do things comfortably.”
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
Looking into
your eyes Nothing,i said,except the
air of spring smelling of never and forever.
….and through the lattice which moved as
if a hand is touched by a
hand(which
moved as though
fingers touch a girl’s
breast,
lightly)
Do you believe in always,the wind
said to the rain
I am too busy with
my flowers to believe,the rain answered”
— e.e. cummings
“The magic of music is in its effect on volition. A sudden clearing of the mind of the rubbish and the re-establishment of a sense of proportion.”
—Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pg 283
Just as Instagram makes bad photos look good and good photos look great, Facebook makes you look happy and loved if you’re not, and joyous and adored if you are. Self-brand and share. Filter, and share. Share the edited stuff, the varnished stuff, the stuff with the halo around it. Take a step away from truth for the sake of beauty.
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Beauty exists only in struggle.
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- Frederick Seidel: It is possible to offend people still, and my poems not infrequently do. One way to do it is to write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.
- Interviewer: You think beauty enters into it?
- Frederick Seidel: Yes. The wrong thing to say, a harsh way to say it, but done beautifully, done perfectly. I like poems that are daggers that sing.
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