"impulses, aims, oscillations"
Pascal, Trakl, Roethke, Bourgeois, Berssenbrugge, Oliver, Mandelstam
Blaise Pascal, Pensées:
Four kinds of persons: zeal without knowledge; knowledge without zeal; neither knowledge nor zeal; both zeal and knowledge.
Georg Trakl (trans. Will Stone):
Theodore Roethke:
Louise Bourgeois:
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge:
I think in my first years of writing, I was trying to be a writer but I didn’t know what that meant. Now, I am deeply, deeply, deeply committed to writing as service. As an expression, as showing, as contributing to understanding, or as contributing to feeling, being a medium for expression of something that the times might call for.
Mary Oliver:
Osip Mandelstam, Entretiens sur Dante:
We want to describe the indescribable: nature's instantaneous text. We have lost the art of describing the only reality whose structure lends itself to poetic representation: impulses, aims, oscillations.
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