How important

How important is the particularity of experience?

Loss is inevitable

Loss is inevitable, inescapable, because of the nature of time.

What one seeks

What one seeks in the other is what one needs in the self.

Everything

Everything should be available to everyone.

Do words

Do words have meanings or do meanings have words?

Consciousness

Consciousness is analogous to the way the brain makes light out of the darkness of sleep.

Don't suppose

Don't suppose support or opposition.

The only

The only affiliations I acknowledge are the elective ones; the only afflictions, those unchosen.

The disguise

The disguise is the identity, and the identity is the disguise.

"Elitist"

"Elitist" is the epithet on the lips of losers.

Only humans

Only humans could postulate gods longing to be human.

Poets need not flee

Poets need not flee the facts of the world; rather, they should see them anew in insightful ways.

Many forms

There are many forms of formlessness.

Those who try to make things right

Those who try to make things right will never be as happy (or successful) as those who try to make things better.

It is not enough

It is not enough to try to do too much.

Duty & privilege

It is our duty to look;
it is our privilege to see.

It is often easier

It is often easier to resist the push than to resist the pull.

No more obligation

If I have been created, I owe no more obligation to my creator than a cake that I bake does to me.

The arrogance

The arrogance of the notion that a human could perceive or conceive of a true god!

Doesn't have to

Self-indulgence doesn't have to imply self-destructiveness.

There is more

There is more in the depiction than in the reflection.

Our concept that will change the most

Our concept that will change the most over the next hundred years will be that of the "artificial."

No one has ever loved

No one has ever loved anyone enough to make them love them.

I reserve the right

I reserve the right to criticize that which delivers suffering to my door.

Everyone has it

Everyone has it a little bit right and a whole lot wrong.

Never wealthy enough

I was never wealthy enough to learn to part with things.

I would rather be

I would rather be bohemian than pedestrian.

Worker

Worker is the ugliest epithet.

We see the shadow

We see the shadow of sameness and call it difference.

The suckers

The suckers are the ones who see everything happening as they expect it to.

Don't destroy

Modify what you find, even what you find in yourself, but don't destroy what was already there.

Evil

It is not evil to not know the good.
It is evil to reject the good.

Cacophony

Cacophony is music we are not equipped to hear.

Could be

What could be is what should be.

We exist

We exist to condemn the elders
and to curse the youth.

Immoderate

Eliminating vice is immoderate.

To manipulate your fate

To manipulate your fate, articulate!

Evolution can be annulled

Evolution can be annulled in a state sufficiently fluid.

I am greedy enough

I am greedy enough to want someone more kind than greedy.

I can't believe that

I can't believe that I can't believe it.

All I have

All I have are rhetorical answers.

How much time

How much time do we spend undoing?

Beyond

Even my understanding of things is beyond my ability to change.

Who decides

Who decides what one deserves?

We demolish

We demolish what we diminish.

How can I

How can I forgive this impulse to forgive?

Will you?

Will you want what you get when you get what you want?

Paying attention

Paying attention can be like an obsession.

Fictional characters

We are fictional characters without the traditional advantages provided by the author.

On truth

Truth is an alignment with fact, irrespective of expectation or desire.

Either

Either I have ideas about ideas
or I am ideas about ideas.

I prefer the dream

I prefer the dream in the dream to the dream.

What?

What are we programmed not to see?

Try to subtract

Try to subtract from interpretation as much assumption as you can.

A quite different sense

I think many readers would assign too much literality to my poetry. What they assume is meant literally is often being used in a quite different sense.

People are either

Generally, people are either easy to persuade or impossible to convince.

So eager

We are so eager to resist, we will resist even the idea that we are entitled to resist.