Dualism: "the splitting sickness". There's a machine in my
head for making coins of conceptuality; they all have
heads & tails: i don't know how to make any other kind
(or it isn't a coin)--.

" 'Oh no!' said Holland, 'The species is not at all intent
on destroying itself. It's intent on being something
which happens inevitably to entail its destruction,
that's all.' " --Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down (1952)

Reason is a chainsaw but only hands can build.

"For, if the Grand Architect had acted a human part,
he would have ranged the stars into some beautiful
and elegant order, as we see in the vaulted roofs
of palaces; whereas, we scarce find among such an
infinite multitude of stars any figure either square,
triangular, or rectilinear; so great a difference is
there betwixt the spirit of man, and the spirit of
the universe." --Francis Bacon, On the Dignity
and Advancement of Learning IV, iv.

Freedom is not a feeling. (A terrible truth for our
times)

"Robert Frost liked very much to play [tennis], they
say, but he hated to lose. In fact he would get so
upset and grumpy when he lost that those who
looked out for him arranged that no one could play
him who did not agree beforehand to dump the
match." --Galway Kinnell, Walking Down the
Stairs (interviews)
  [So much for free verse being tennis
without a net!]