Marije de Wit

“To turn from this institution
'in the position of not-believing:
'This would be the utopian turn.
'I can't do it.
'So I pierce utopia
'with divine boredom.
And then the dog - for it was a dog who spoke'
gently ambled off
betwixt black trunks of trees
and I am going to tell you that this dog glanced back in simple sadness
said

'Soon there will be only society'.”
― Lisa Robertson, Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip

“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

“We think that there is not a politics that does not begin in our desiring cells. We think that this corporeal surplus, the movement beyond our biographies and our perceived or administrated limits, is the force that makes and changes worlds.”
― Lisa Robertson, Matthew Stadler, REVOLUTION: a reader

“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