Category: language

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Christian Bobin : la beauté simple du quotidien.

An Interview, 2007.

Skeptical, often deserving; a purgative; a seasoner; give live-
liness, pungency; a preservative; create a false impression;
is stored away … O, definitions, holding–for nothing–
our black hands … tassels, tassels .. the words come, and
the words come, trailing like dew upon the world’s wet
wounds, O salt!

Charles Wright, Salt

I thought how, with the glory of its bloom,
I should the darkness of my life illume

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Promise

AG2023_1045245a reprise or that is her patter in the hall

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Neither rosy nor prim; prefers the chorus to the heap of disturbance.

“Softly–
Yes, that is her patter in the hall.
She has returned.”
–Alfred Kreymborg, Again

“They raise their eyes to her whose grace and wit
Reanimate the shadows of the room,
Her eyes nocturnal beings exquisite
With witchery to make the stillness bloom;”
–Alfred Kreymborg, When They Require Gardens

“The person you are trying

is not accepting. Is not

at this time. Please

again. The person

you are trying is not

in service.

[…] Again later

at this time. Not accepting.”

–Martha Collins, Again later.

The lifespan of awe

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“The lifespan of awe”

“Get lost in the magic of the place.”

“[My] job is to gauge an appetite for the new. I broker possibilities.”

-Christopher Bollen, The Lost Americans

AG2022_2110775a or what we value

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What must be valued–spaces where … thought, sunshine, flowers, intangibles, necessities, time, freedom … are held.

“What must be valued
I’m learning,

in clarity and in error,
are spaces

where
feelings are held.

Here—in a poem?
And elsewhere”

– Jenny Johnson, Spaces

“Thought, sunshine, flowers: they wanted intangible as well as tangible goods, pleasures as well as necessities, and the time to pursue them, the time to have an inner life and freedom to roam the outer world.” (Solnit, Orwell’s Roses)