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“(...) 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”
― Eleni Sikelianos, Earliest Worlds: Two Books by Eleni Sikelianos

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“Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

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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.”
― Mina Loy

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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.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

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“Interpretation takes the sensory experience of the work of art for granted, and proceeds from there. This cannot be taken for granted, now. Think of the sheer multiplication of works of art available to every one of us, superadded to the conflicting tastes and odors and sights of the urban environment that bombard our senses. Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. (...) And it is in the light of the condition of our senses, our capacities, that the task of the critic must be assessed. What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to See more, to Hear more, to Feel more.”
― Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

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