I speak of poetry to the exception of no being, been, or gonna be.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. - Allen Ginsberg
To formulate and express the contents of the reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. - Aldous Huxley
Poetry is life distilled. - Gwendolyn Brooks
"Civilization is entirely the product of phonetic literacy. As it dissolves with the electronic revolution, we rediscover a tribal integral awareness that manifests itself in a complete shift in our sensory lives....This new electronic environment itself constitutes an inner trip, collectively, without benefit of drugs. The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment." - Marshall McLuhan
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." - R. Buckminster Fuller
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
A diary means yes indeed. - Gertrude Stein
From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may once have been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the lungs. The word may once have been a healthy neural cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting your sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word... ~ William Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. - Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiousity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein. - Zora Neale Hurston
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ~Alfred de Musset, Le Poete dechu, 1839
You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. ~Robert Frost
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living. - Gertrude Stein
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~Gustave Flaubert
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion
There is not a particle of life that does not carry poetry within it. ~Gustave Flaubert
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