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?

Inside

Inside every adequacy is a center of deficiency.

The future skeptic (ChatGPT)

The future skeptic may need to be less:

"I know this is false because I know the tricks."

and more:

"I don't know whether this is true yet, and I am comfortable not knowing."

That last part is huge.

Because the misinformation ecosystem's greatest weapon isn't necessarily making you believe false things.

It's making you feel that you must have an opinion immediately.

And AI is going to make that worse because it can produce an apparently authoritative answer to almost any question in seconds.

ChatGPT

Unless

Going this way means little unless I could have gone that way.

Poetry is

Poetry is the phasing phrase.

We love best

We love best the contour, but learn most from the cross-section.

I want to know most

I want to know most what I can't conceive in terms of the already known.

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Heaven & hell

Heaven is a blank sheet of paper; hell, a pen that has run out of ink.