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“Most movements have a fixed concept towards which they advance, we move away from all fixed concepts in order to advance.”
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“Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void for ever craves fresh food.”
― A Defence of Poetry
― A Defence of Poetry
“Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.”
― A Defence of Poetry
― A Defence of Poetry
“(About Georgia O'Keeffe) At the Art Students League in New York one of her fellow students advised her that, since he would be a great painter and she would end up teaching painting in a girs' school, any work of hers was less important than modeling for him. Another painted over her work to show her how the Impressionists did trees. She had not before heard how the Impressionists did trees and she did not much care.
At twenty-four she left all those opinions behind and went for the first time to live in Texas, where there were no trees to paint and no one to tell her how not to paint them. In Texas there was only the horizon she craved. In Texas she had her sister Claudia with her for a while, and in the late afternoons they would walk away from town and toward the horizon and watch the evening star come out. "That evening star fascinated me," she wrote. "It was in some way very exciting to me. My sister had a gun, and as we walked she would throw bottles into the air and shoot as many as she could before they hit the ground. I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the wide sunset space with the star. Ten watercolors were made from that star.”
― The White Album
At twenty-four she left all those opinions behind and went for the first time to live in Texas, where there were no trees to paint and no one to tell her how not to paint them. In Texas there was only the horizon she craved. In Texas she had her sister Claudia with her for a while, and in the late afternoons they would walk away from town and toward the horizon and watch the evening star come out. "That evening star fascinated me," she wrote. "It was in some way very exciting to me. My sister had a gun, and as we walked she would throw bottles into the air and shoot as many as she could before they hit the ground. I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the wide sunset space with the star. Ten watercolors were made from that star.”
― The White Album
“(...) In this city of unsimilars I give my body
to science
and mosquitoes, but I still want to live in it
despite
carhorns & reckless
poverty, all forms of carbon
copies, hard-ons, declining
trees & me
& my organs to you, Carlotta”
― Earliest Worlds: Two Books by Eleni Sikelianos
to science
and mosquitoes, but I still want to live in it
despite
carhorns & reckless
poverty, all forms of carbon
copies, hard-ons, declining
trees & me
& my organs to you, Carlotta”
― Earliest Worlds: Two Books by Eleni Sikelianos
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