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"Her throat bore pinkish words reading, _This machine is not a place of honor._
[from Hailey Piper’s “The Majestic Art of Flesh”. I’m probably not supposed to think this at this point in the story but a Sandia nuclear waste warning tattoo is extremely hot]" — Dec 22, 2024 07:09AM
[from Hailey Piper’s “The Majestic Art of Flesh”. I’m probably not supposed to think this at this point in the story but a Sandia nuclear waste warning tattoo is extremely hot]" — Dec 22, 2024 07:09AM
There is no “right answer” to questions like Who should I be with? and How much should I compromise? and Will they ever change?
“All of this makes dying sound meaningful and sweet. And it is true that, if you are lucky, there is a seam of sweetness and meaning to be found within it, a vein of silver in a dark cave a thousand feet underground. Still, the cave is a cave.”
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
“Isn't it weird that we have characters? Aren't characters just weird? Naming characters is such a scam.”
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“...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed interiority of a speaker, that the interior is indeed political - and that every poem, every time, in some miraculous way, must be an argument about the making of poetry itself.”
― All the Flowers Kneeling
― All the Flowers Kneeling
“There is no such thing as prose. There is the alphabet, and then there are verses which are more or less closely knit, more or less diffuse. So long as there is a straining toward style, there is versification.”
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“Some poets have argued that the rejection of line carries a kind of political charge, just as poets once felt that the rejection of rhyming verse for blank verse or blank verse for free verse carried a political charge. This may be true in a particular time at a particular place. But it cannot be true categorically. For example, even if the heroic couplet was once associated with hierarchical thinking in the eighteenth century, it does not follow that the heroic couplet will always inevitably be doomed to reproduce the same hierarchies in our thought. The relationship between formal choice and ideological position is constantly shifting, and it isn’t possible to predict the repercussions of formal decisions except inasmuch as we might see them played out in the work of individual poets.”
― The Art of the Poetic Line
― The Art of the Poetic Line
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