What happens between

The poet puts things next to one another.
The poem is what happens between them.

Too big

Some failures are too big, require cooperation to achieve.

What it doesn't

The naive looks at what it means. The sophisticated looks at what it doesn't mean.

Too many poets

Too many poets are just describing things.

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You can't

You can't step into the same metaphor twice.

Response

A response is not the only way to react.

More trust

There is more trust in one of my poems
than in a year of my life.

Poetry is probably impossible

Poetry is probably impossible without assertion.

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I starved (Bukowski)

I starved for my art, I starved to
gain 5 god-damned minutes, 5 hours,
5 days—

Charles Bukowski, from "death is smoking my cigars"

A far greater torment

The unachievable is a far greater torment than the unobtainable.

We say

We are, we say, the damage we have sustained in contact with the world.

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The null

The null annuls nothing: everything is cancelled, rather, by the action of something else.

On computation

Computation is productive corruption.

On death

Death is an emptying of what living has filled.

Nothing special

One can be nothing special and still be special in one's own time.

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The most important thing

The most important thing is to notice things.