Marije de Wit

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“What we come together to try to do starts to look like what we do when we come together to enjoy ourselves, handing saying what we want for one another to one another in and out of words.”
― Fred Moten, The Service Porch

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“The work of art offers an experience of contradictions and incommensurabilities – these are much better than truths.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

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“A work of art is a prophetic loan, drawn on fugitive premises; the artist acts on it, and, presumably, sustains some faith that others will do so too, or at least could.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Tribunal

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“But daily life and art occupy different space-times; a museum, a concert hall, a page of text, an art gallery are more likely to be experienced as refuges from daily life than as its venue.”
― Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun

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“By formally addressing itself to the infinite without the infinite receding into a definitionless void, poetry establishes a conceptual interface between the two terms. It creates the possibility of encounter with the unknown and the other by demonstrating this interface as essential to, and indeed constitutive of, individual human being.”
― Johanna Skibsrud, The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being

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