Just because something is done according to the law does not mean that it is lawful. Law is made in the image of an ideal. One can make a law that does not reflect that image, and that law may be a law without being lawful.
Nick Harkaway, Gnomon
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I fear not just that I, personally, will be forgotten but that we are all doomed to being forgotten; that the sum of life is ultimately nothing; that we experience joy and disappointment and aches and delights and loss, make our little mark on the world, and then we vanish, and the mark is erased, and it is as if we never existed. If you gaze into that bleakness even for a moment, the sum of life becomes null and void, because if nothing lasts nothing matters. Everything we experience unfolds without a pattern, and life is just a baffling occurrence, a scattering of notes with no melody.
Susan Orlean
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
Antonio Porchia
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Words are made of memory. Even the shortest word—even "I"—is inconceivable without memory.
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He [Whitman] "shall not let it"—that is, the lures of the world, the intoxication—distract him from his loafing, the refusal to be tempted out of idleness, from which all his great poetry emerges.
This refusal can be difficult to sustain, because of external and internal pressures. Yet it is only through preserving somewhere, within oneself, a refusal to be "useful" in the ways the world expects, to be "functional" or "productive" or "responsible," that one prepares to be a poet.
Matthew Zapruder, Why Poetry
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rat's Ass Review is going to be publishing my poems Discontinuity and In Ruins. I'll post more details as I get them.
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