The Great Book Caper » Shelf 11
Robert Anton Wilson
Semantic noise also seems to haunt every communication system. A man may sincerely say, ‘I love fish,’ and two listeners may both hear him correctly, yet the two will neurosemantically file this in their brains under opposite categories. One will think the man loves to dine on fish, and the other will think he loves to keep fish (in an aquarium).Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.-
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Gustav Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.Twitter
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Hypatia
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.Witold Gombrowicz
“Here is the writer who with all his heart and soul, with his art, in anguish and travail offers nourishment – there is the reader who’ll have none of it, and if he wants, it’s only in passing, offhandedly, until the phone rings. Life’s trivia are your undoing. You are like a man who has challenged a dragon to a fight but will be yapped into a corner by a little dog.” FerdydurkeCharles Simic
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Chromatopia LLC
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- Academy of American Poets
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- dVerse Poetry Pub High caliber online poetry community!
- Poets United A Community For Poets Who Blog.
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- A Sun Kissed Life (Ayala)
- Another Damn Poetry Bog (Mama Zen)
- Another Wandering Soul
- Becky Kilsby
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- botanically speaking, the onion is a lily
- Cloudborne
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- Eva Von Pelt
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- Jane Davitt Hewey
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- jaywalking the moon (Claudia Schoenfeld)
- ManicDdaily
- Metanoetic Poetics (Charles Miller)
- Modern Rage (Jesse S. Mitchell)
- Mrs. Mediocrity
- Oran's Well
- poetaviator ©
- Poetical Psyche (Fred Rutherford)
- Poetry Tech
- Pull of the Sun
- Shay's Word Garden
- She's Writing
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- Symbols In My Head
- Tessellated Me
- The Tashtoo Parlour (Natasha Head)
- The Wheel and the Star
- These Anointed Ruins
- Verse Escape
- Vince Gotera (The Man with the Blue Guitar)
- Waystation One (Brian Miller)
- Wings Over Waters
- Wordscapes
- Yelena's Poetry
- Zero Summer (Arron Shilling)
- Zumpoems
Monique Wittig
"Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it... Language as a whole gives everyone the same power of becoming an absolute subject through its exercise. But gender, an element of language, works upon this ontological fact to annul it as far as women are concerned and corresponds to a constant attempt to strip them of the most precious thing for a human being - subjectivity. Gender is an ontological impossibility because it tries to accomplish the division of Being. But Being is not divided. God or Man as being are One and whole. So what is this divided Being introduced into language through gender? It is an impossible Being, it is a Being that does not exist, an ontological joke, a conceptual maneuver to wrest from women what belongs to them by right: conceiving of oneself as a total subject through the exercise of language. The result of the imposition of gender, acting as a denial at the very moment when one speaks, is to deprive women of the authority of speech, and to force them to make their entrance in a crablike way, particularizing themselves and apologizing profusely. The result is to deny them any claim to the abstract, philosophical, political discourses that give shape to the social body. Gender then must be destroyed. The possibility of its destruction is given through the very exercise of language. For each time I say 'I' I reorganize the world from my point of view and through abstraction I lay claim to universality. This fact holds true for every locutor. "Categories
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Denise Levertov
When words penetrate deep into us they change the chemistry of the soul, of the imagination. We have no right to do that to people if we don’t share the consequences.W.S. Merwin
All the things that really matter to us are impossible...Writing poetry is impossible. I don't know how to write a poem. A poem - there has to be a part of it that is not my own will; it comes from somewhere that I don't know. There is so much that comes out of what we don't know and what we don't have any control over. I think that one of the only things we can learn as we get older is a certain humility. - from Doing the Impossible, Yes Magazine, Issue 59Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
