Real freedom, after all, means the ability to spend your time as you see fit—to write, to think, to paint, to sculpt, or to do nothing in particular—and, under capitalism, the rich have a lot more freedom than the rest of us. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Luke Savage
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It is impossible the world should be either good or bad
If its colors are beautiful or if they are not beautiful
If parts of it taste good or if no parts of it taste good
It is as remarkable in one case as the other
George Oppen, from "Some San Francisco Poems"
Labels: poetry
This ego, bound by personal
Tragedy and the vast
Impersonal vindictiveness
Of the ruined and ruining world,
Pauses in this immortality,
As passionate, as apathetic,
As the lava flow that burned here once;
And stopped here; and said, "This far
And no further." And spoke thereafter
In the simple diction of stone.
Kenneth Rexroth, from "Lyell's Hypothesis Again"
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The monster is the one that you cannot tolerate based simply on who and what it is.
Labels: thought
You can kill what is sweet or wait
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The discernment of pattern becomes the recognition of patterns becomes the frisson of familiarity.
Labels: thought
Received my author copies of The Animal Commitments! The pre-orders should ship in the next week or two. If anyone hasn't gotten a copy and still wants one, they are available at Finishing Line Press.
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