No one who wanted to read (Postman)

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

It is a problem

It is a problem that the failures of the narrative can be absorbed by the narrative.

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Mind

Mind is the only personal thing.

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On poetry

Poetry is language used to create an experience or possibility that ordinary language would not have produced by itself.

My policy

It is my policy to minimize the use of policies.

A structural component

Most societies have abuse as a structural component, and modern American society is certainly no exception.

Appreciative

Be appreciative of tradition, not deferential to it.

My preferred superpower

My preferred superpower would be being unconstrained.

On poetry

Poetry is not poetry without friction.

Epistemic omniscience

Epistemic omniscience does not produce metaphysical omniscience.

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No thieves

No thieves thrive on thrift.

You wouldn't have to

You wouldn't have to give me anything if you let me take what I need.

The people who will read my poems

How can I imagine the people who will read my poems when I couldn't imagine the people I would meet in my life?

The thing is

The thing is, thingness is a thing.

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Poetry

Poetry is a kind of poetry.

How long?

How long can you contain the madness? How long can you maintain the mad idea that madness can be contained?