Flounder
flavored oven toast, and sauteed balsamic squash.
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It's getting better. At least this batch had a crispy outer layer. Recipe from the latest issue of Cook's Illustrated.
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Any series of lines or sentences, no matter how unusually or unexpectedly juxtaposed in a poem, immediately starts to accrue some kind of personality for the reader.
Matthew Zapruder
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Nothing means anything except in books.... Meaning is demeaning.
Lee Siegel, Love In A Dead Language
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Who wants to understand the poem
Must go to the land of poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Too much of what poses as poetry is mere anecdote: character sketches of old flames; childhood scenes recollected in tranquility decades later; backyard animal studies; clever jokes. But a true poem, it seems to me, isn't just a pleasantry. It changes something for the reader. Maybe everything.
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The deficiencies in our description would probably vanish if we were already in a position to replace the psychological terms with physiological or chemical ones.... We may expect [physiology and chemistry] to give the most surprising information and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years of questions we have put to it. They may be of a kind that will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypothesis.
Sigmund Freud
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In my chest one tear is boiling.
I'm not frightened to know that the storm will go on and on.
Some ghoul tries to hurry me, make me forget,
but even when I can't breathe I want to live till I die.
Osip Mandelstam, from "229"
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And if the song is sung truly,
from the whole heart, everything
at last vanishes: nothing is left
but space, the stars, the singer.
Osip Mandelstam, from "54"
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