'No age is in such need of poetry as that which
thinks it can do without it.' --Jean Paul Richter

Is despair like a faith in the impossibility of all
efforts?

Everyone does Madonnas, never any Crucifixions...

Maybe that's the part of language (or at least,
textbooks as presently written) i care least for:
naming all the furniture. When a picture is a much
better description. Suppose there were a language
only for describing the invisible?

"Anthologies are to poets what zoos are to animals."
--David Antin

The absence of a common intellectual framework is
to the mind's cathedrals as the absence of mason guilds
is to real cathedrals that want to be built. All that can
happen today is the Watts Towers.

"You may be sure that a question which requires
music for an answer can't be put into words." --A Voyage
to Arcturus

I ought to just regard Art as a game i'm allowed to
play by myself but not with others...(My imaginary
playmates: the dead.) To be accepted, to be noticed, to
be cherished--this our birthright has been stolen; & we
are forced to fight amongst ourselves for scraps.

"Let no one consider the original noise." --Barrett Watten