“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
― The Favorite Game
― The Favorite Game
“Anche per noi, che già da tempo ubbidiamo all'inconscia supplica di ogni presenza umana, fu uno stupore sentirci investire, sommergere da tanta ricchezza. Davvero l'uomo, in quanto ha di più vivo,si è svelato, e adesso attende che noialtri, cui tocca, sappiamo comprendere e parlare senza ombra di timidezza o di ironia. Le parole sono tenere cose, intrattabili e vive, ma fatte per l'uomo e non l'uomo per loro. Sentiamo tutti di vivere in un tempo in cui bisogna riportare le parole alla solida e nuda nettezza di quando l'uomo le creava per servirsene. E ci accade che proprio per questo, perchè servono all'uomo, le nuove parole ci commuovano e afferrino come nessuna delle voci più pompose del mondo che muore, come una preghiera o un bollettino di guerra.”
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“Everything is the same except composition and as the composition is different and always going to be different everything is not the same. So then I as a contemporary creating the composition in the beginning was groping toward a continuous present, a using everything a beginning again and again and then everything being alike then everything very simply everything was naturally simply different and so I as a contemporary was creating everything being alike was creating everything naturally being naturally simply different, everything being alike. This then was the period that brings me to the period of the beginning of 1914. Everything being alike everything naturally would be simply different and war came and everything being alike and everything being simply different brings everything being simply different brings it to romanticism.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
“Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.
Come let us mock at the wise;
With all those calendars whereon
They fixed old aching eyes,
They never saw how seasons run,
And now but gape at the sun.
Come let us mock at the good
That fancied goodness might be gay,
And sick of solitude
Might proclaim a holiday:
Wind shrieked -- and where are they?
Mock mockers after that
That would not lift a hand maybe
To help good, wise or great
To bar that foul storm out, for we
Traffic in mockery.”
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That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.
Come let us mock at the wise;
With all those calendars whereon
They fixed old aching eyes,
They never saw how seasons run,
And now but gape at the sun.
Come let us mock at the good
That fancied goodness might be gay,
And sick of solitude
Might proclaim a holiday:
Wind shrieked -- and where are they?
Mock mockers after that
That would not lift a hand maybe
To help good, wise or great
To bar that foul storm out, for we
Traffic in mockery.”
―
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