Every line

Every line of poetry I read, I ask: "Have I written something better than that?"

Many opinions

There are many opinions about what is essential to poetry. I say it must first be interesting.

Am I?

But am I wrong when I say I'm not wrong?

Everything but

Give me everything but grief.

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So many

So many people create an identity from hunger, ignorance and/or error.

Mostly

People are mostly nonsense and nonsense is mostly ghostpiss.

Everything

Everything must be represented in contradiction.

Everyone else

If I settle for everyone else's language, am I not just everyone else?

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A towering wall of stupidity (Roy)

It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? People ran out to marvel at the miles of pristine new beach that suddenly emerged, not realising that, far out at sea, a wall of water was building up and would come crashing over them. We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us.

Arundhati Roy

A way of looking at things

There is a way of looking at things in which all action is interference.

Everyone must know

No one tells you how lonely it will be, though everyone must know.

Taste

When everything tastes of sugar, nothing is sweet.

On entropy

Entropy uses instability to reduce toward an inert state.

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The human trick

The human trick: chaining the improbable into the routine.

The last thing

In you was the last thing I quit believing.

How frequently

How frequently we conflate the thunder with the lightning.

The more

The more you regret, the more you erode.