April 2012
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How People Do by Amiri Baraka
poetsorg (posted by Harmony Holiday):
To be the weak lonely figure
coming home through the cold
up the stairs
melting in grief
the walls and footsteps echo
so much absence and ignorance
is not to be the creature emerging
into the living room, an orderly universe
of known things all names securely placed
is not to be the orderer and namer, the stormer
and creator, is not to be that,...
March 2012
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“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us /universe/, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein
February 2012
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syn:tax: Ben Lerner, On why people hate poetry →
syn-tax:
“…From Plato’s banishment of poets to the whole traditional genre of a defense of poetry, poetry always has to be defended. You don’t have ‘this is a defense of piano’ or ‘this is a defense of dance.’ Poetry is always the thing that’s supposed to be the best thing in a culture. We use the word…
January 2012
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Letter from Frances Boldereff to Charles Olson
Woodward to Washington 15 April 1950 (postmark PM)
Charles—
You said in Tarrytown that no man can endure absolutely alone no matter how strong he is and I agreed.
You saw the elephant in the zoo and you can describe that torture to me as a dance—I understand how you admire those graceful strong creatures—but zoos are places of torture, symbols of man’s blindness, and that you could bear to...
December 2011
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October 2011
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"Autumn Day," Rainer Maria Rilke
Lord: it is time. The huge summer has gone by. Now overlap the sundials with your shadows, and on the meadows let the wind go free.
Command the fruits to swell on the tree and vine; grant them a few more warm transparent days, urge them on to fulfillment then, and press the final sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will...
September 2011
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“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon...
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"still the body," Kabir [trans. Sushil Rao]
still the body still the mind still the voice inside in silence feel the stillness move friends this feeling cannot be imagined
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August 2011
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July 2011
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"Ever A Seeker," Carl Sandburg
The fingers turn the pages.
The pages unfold as a scroll.
There was the time there was no America.
Then came on the scroll an early
America, a land of beginnings,
an American being born.
Then came a later America, seeker
and finder, yet ever more seeker
than finder, ever seeking its way
amid storm and dream.
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"I started Early – Took my Dog –," Emily Dickinson
I started Early – Took my Dog – And visited the Sea – The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me – And Frigates – in the Upper Floor Extended Hempen Hands – Presuming Me to be a Mouse – Aground – opon the Sands – But no Man moved Me – till the Tide Went past my simple Shoe – And past my Apron – and my Belt And past my Boddice – too – And made as He would eat me up – As...