Poetry

Poetry doesn't have to be anything
to be good poetry except good.

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Contrast

Culture can change, but character can't.

Too much

Too much is never enough.

The vices

The vices are not as nice
as their voices.

Most human misunderstanding (Smith)

Most human misunderstanding arises less from differing points of view than from perceptions of different levels of significance. The world is a complex system, and our understanding of it comes, in science, from the matching of model structures with the physical structure of matter and, in art, from a perceived relationship between its physical structure and the levels of sensual and imaginative perception that are possible within the structure of our brain's workings.

Cyril Stanley Smith, A Search For Structure

On belief

I will never believe what I want to be true.

Never

Never confuse inevitable for good.

The puzzle

We are the puzzle we are least likely to solve.

There are arts

There are arts more subtle than art.

More are ruined

More are ruined by resistance
to change than by change itself.

Be careful

Be careful when something makes too much sense.

A truth

A truth overstated is a truth undermined.

Reaction

Poetry is not an action,
is always a reaction.
But what isn't?

So often

Indifference and malevolence so often feel the same.

Everything interesting

Everything interesting happens in my head.

Suddenly there's an idea (Bernhard)

Suddenly there's an idea and it demands realization, our entire life, our entire existence consists only of such ideas demanding realization, once this process breaks off, our life breaks off, we're dead. We consist of nothing but ideas that surface inside us and that we want to realize, that we must realize, or else we're dead... Every idea and every pursuit of an idea inside us is life...the lack of ideas is death.

Thomas Bernhard, Correction

Despair

All despair is prompted by the ephemeral
or the impossible.

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Intended

Intent is intended
to ward off accident.