On poetry

Poetry is whatever anyone says poetry is,
and whatever anyone says poetry isn't.

Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias is the secular Satan,
tempting the naive to error.

Data

Data without context isn't data.

Cause for concern

A cause for concern is not a cause for concern
until it triggers action.

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Progress (Franklin)

The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my Regretting sometimes that I was born so soon.  It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried in a 1000 Years the Power of Man over Matter.  We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity & give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport.  Agriculture may diminish its Labour & double its Produce.  All Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standard.  O that moral Science were in as fair a Way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and that human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity.—

Benjamin Franklin

Useful

The temple may be prettier,
but the outhouse is more useful.

Pedestal

Never raise people so high that you can't see what they're doing.

On money

Money is success for stupid people.

Walking backwards

So long as you believe when you should think,
you are walking backwards.

Thoughts

Are thoughts the key to understanding reality,
or complex ciphers that obscure it?

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Is there ever?

Is there ever a reason
to relinquish reason?

On the self

The self is a tyrant toward the selves that comprise the self.

Warning

The ludicrous is a warning
unheeded by the rash.

We are

We are that which chases
that which rises and falls.

To question

To interrogate the world is to question oneself.

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Self

Self is a filter of other.

On poetry

Poetry is the breath in speech,
or the speech in breath.