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“The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.”
― On Balance
― On Balance
“For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”
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“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.”
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“I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these past days, the archetypes of the dismal mystery, sons and daughters of the archetypes, images that could not be certain which of two confusions held less terror, their own or what their own might become if it ever faced the truth. I drove at insane speeds.”
― Americana
― Americana
“I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.)
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the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing.”
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
for:
the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing.”
― Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
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