“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
―
―
“Well, death's been here
for a long time --
it has a hell of a lot
to do with hell
and suspicion of the eye
and the religious objects
and how I mourned them
when they were made obscene
by my dwarf-heart's doodle.”
―
for a long time --
it has a hell of a lot
to do with hell
and suspicion of the eye
and the religious objects
and how I mourned them
when they were made obscene
by my dwarf-heart's doodle.”
―
“The animal I wanted
Couldn't get into the world
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life”
― Collected Poems
Couldn't get into the world
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life”
― Collected Poems
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