Posts Tagged ‘haiku’
July 27, 2013
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Brion Gysin is
the horizontal axis
of the avant-garde
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Concrete poetry’s
shelf life is about a week—
the same as gossip
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The New York Times is
Vogue with rabbinical text
and raw editing
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Writing is fifty
years behind fashion, but it’s
gorgeously simple
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Cooperative
mimesis is the flatness
of community
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The parameters
of the abstract canon are
ennui’s storage bins
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The normative speech
of idiosyncratic
art is radiance
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Cage, Ginsberg, Warhol
and Whitman: grubby merchants
all, plain and greedy
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[Goldsmith is virtually unrepresented on quote sites. All text pooled from his interview with Marjorie Perloff in Jacket magazine, 2003]
Tags:conceptual writing, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Kenneth Goldsmith | Comments Off on Kenneth Goldsmith #1
June 16, 2013
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Love is a silver
mirror bursting in the fast
ocean of my heart
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The metronome of
time is an obsessive dream
of silent music
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This society
is a gallery show that
runs on pain money
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Art is permanent
even if nobody else
in this world sees it
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When controversy
is sacrificed to power,
culture can’t exist
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The peace and healing
of prophetic wisdom is
lost beyond sad air
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Vibrations flow from
the intelligent body—
walking is thinking
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Tags:haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Yoko Ono | Comments Off on Yoko Ono
June 7, 2013
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The key to the new
art is within each atom
of pure suffering
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Survival is a
license to consume the oil
of eternal dreams
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Daily life is the
corpse of poetry murdered
by enduring love
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Revolution is
a mechanized cycle of
democratic rage
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The truth is knowledge
constrained by understanding
and necessity
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Philosophy is
starvation of the mind by
mortification
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The refusal of
banal pleasure insults your
productivity
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The slaughterhouse of
poverty sings with the drowned
mouth of advantage
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Tags:haiku, poetry, quote, situationist
Posted in Raoul Vaneigem | Comments Off on Raoul Vaneigem
May 14, 2013
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Every suicide
of a theologian is
a resurrection
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Patriotism is
the wax dog of cowardice
barking at your heart
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A man is himself
only so long as he’s not
intelligible
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The monogamous
relationship will never
assuage solitude
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After your death you
will be what you were before
music existed
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A man’s brain is an
idiot text, parasite
of his intellect
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Perversity is
a fascination with the
inexplicable
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Schopenhauer | Comments Off on Schopenhauer
April 4, 2013
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Radishes are all
we have. We have words, but they’re
unnecessary.
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Obliterate bliss.
Pulverize delirium.
Weep for butterflies.
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There’s no cure for a
God who is no longer young,
reduced to dying
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Reason is tripe. Love
is tripe. Death is tripe. But they’re
not all the same tripe.
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Regret nothing but
hideous calculations
and the shine of boots
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Time is a vulgar
sonata, idle discourse
for the hunted deaf
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The sun looked upon
nothingness; silent gleam of
the world’s spangled bones
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Tags:Godot, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Samuel Beckett | Comments Off on Samuel Beckett
March 8, 2013
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Boredom is the dull
reverse side of every Right-
wing paranoid lie
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The best thing about
religion is heresy
in a baroque church
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Surrealism is
sadomasochism without
the pornography
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Marx is sexier
than bourgeois social life; he’s
an erotic dream
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Cogito, ergo
something like communism is
human salvation
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American love
is a philistine excess
of sensory dread
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Contemporary
art is all-out war—culture’s
lunatic death mask
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Tags:against interpretation, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Susan Sontag | Comments Off on Susan Sontag
February 23, 2013
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Luxury is the
natural contentment with
artificial things
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I am in friendly
harmony with evil: My
mother is for sale
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There is only one
good, but it is not in the
field of my knowledge
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Having the fewest
wants, I am nearest to the
poverty of God
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Old age is wretched;
I’ve had as much as a man
can bear and then some
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Beauty infects the
soul with the desire for gold
and wise ignorance
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Justice and virtue
are false words; follow not where
they aspire to lead
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Tags:haiku, hemlock, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Socrates (via Plato et al.) | Comments Off on Socrates (via Plato et al.)
February 8, 2013
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The proper function
of God is to prolong our
suffering. That’s it.
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Every atom of
me is a traitor to my
class and my mother
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I’m hungry for the
magnificent glow of your
loins to spill wet eggs
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Memories are the
ashes of ecstasy, the
dust of forgiveness
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Nature violates
my sanity; it eats at
my inspiration
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Moonlight is a sheet
of flame that will burst the world
like a meteor
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Cash is the bone and
fame is the dog; go after
that dog with a club
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The lavish hand of
charity is limitless . . .
Father the unborn!
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Tags:haiku, iron heel, poetry, quote
Posted in Jack London | Comments Off on Jack London
January 21, 2013
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He alone is free
who lives with the confusion
of natural sin
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True virtue is life
under the direction of
the divine absurd
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Whatsoe’er is, is
in music. Without music
there is only God
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As you go to war,
be abject, indignant and
love deformity
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Salvation is the
greatest pride, far beyond man’s
self-complacency
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We feel and know that
happiness is a nuisance;
we strive not to laugh
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By common consent,
a humble ignorance is
our greatest desire
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Tags:haiku, panpsychism, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Spinoza | Comments Off on Spinoza
January 9, 2013
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A man is rich in
proportion to the number
of things he regrets
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It is unwise to
keep one’s feet on a level
with eternity
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A government that
imprisons unjustly is
every government
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I stand in awe of
the sparrow, who builds temples
in the air of time
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The remedy for
love is wisdom, for which there
is no remedy
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Give me the water
of infinite truth. And if
you can’t, I’ll drink faith
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Public opinion
is the cheapest pleasure found
in a vacuum
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Take my pity and
give me money—I am the
sage of poverty
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The mass of men lead
anxious lives, lost in the hard
fruit of the moment
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You get more nurture
from a trout than you do from
this society
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Go confidently
in the direction of your
fate! And take a dog
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Beware of all things
whose success requires God, guns
and morality
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Tags:civil disobedience, haiku, poetry, quote, Walden
Posted in Henry David Thoreau | Comments Off on Henry David Thoreau
December 24, 2012
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The Muses are ten,
the Graces are four, but my
one tomb I adore
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The underworld is
a lie, the resurrection
a great evil sleep
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How strange is the lot
of great books! Without deeper
reflection, they die
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I drink from every
well, though I loathe Venus more
than Pluto himself
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Nightingales claw at
the world, their bitter tears the
perfumed common dust
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The laughter of life
is brief; it shines with wine but
Death is a fair thief
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I wept for the wit
of holy poetry . . . the
sun ran with darkness
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Tags:haiku, Library of Alexandria, poetry, quote
Posted in Callimachus | Comments Off on Callimachus
December 3, 2012
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God was Woman’s first
mistake; then Man; then Love; then
Christianity
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You have your way, I
have my way. Your way is fine
for a lunatic
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That which does not kill
me does not exist. Death is
the faith of all life
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If you gaze into
the abyss of marriage it
will destroy your soul
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Without egoism,
music would be a mistake
and art would be blind
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All things are subject
to the interpretation
of an idiot
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To live is to know
that suffering does not prove
anything at all
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Tags:Übermensch, haiku, Overman, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Nietzsche | Comments Off on Nietzsche
November 4, 2012
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What is the meaning
of life? To find the road that
leads to damnation
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I don’t want your wool,
I don’t want your leather . . . I
want your electrons
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I am sure of one
thing only: bewilderment
is not a problem
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We’ve been mugged by the
nonsense of the Big Bang—an
outworn theory
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Mind becomes God when
we pass beyond the scale of
cloud-crazy humor
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The arrival of
extraterrestrials will
make Jesus look small
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The global warming
Gestapo is the mother
of all slavery
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Tags:haiku, poetry, quantum electrodynamics, quote, solid-state physics
Posted in Freeman Dyson | Comments Off on Freeman Dyson
September 30, 2012
MTR
Some of the faces
in the crowd of ghosts; Wet black
branch of the petals
[via Chinese (Traditional)-Japanese-Korean-Thai-Vietnamese, Bing translator]
Tags:haiku, Italian Fascism, poetry, quote
Posted in Ezra Pound | Comments Off on Ezra Pound
September 27, 2012
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Consciousness is a
concession to the boredom
of dead sensation
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Silence: the echo
of ennui, the sudden state
of eternity
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Democracy is
an imposter, the tyrant
as mad dream poet
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Civilization
is always preferable
to the tomb of God
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Paradise is a
distant enemy—a thorn
in my suffering
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The ambition to
sleep is thwarted by the fear
of killing oneself
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To speak in the name
of others is to butcher
sweet indifference
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, torment
Posted in E.M. Cioran | Comments Off on E.M. Cioran
September 4, 2012
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The Democrats are
all wife-swapping lesbians
with socialist kids
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I’m so old-fashioned
I still believe in marriage
and cannibalism
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Conservatism is
a hard choice for people who
don’t smoke cigarettes
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It may surprise you
to know that I advocate
horsewhipping infants
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A Vietnamese
and a Latino: really,
what’s the difference?
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I tried at every
point to seek God’s wisdom, but
He was with Dan Quayle
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Homosexuals,
vodka and abortion: the
fruit of the U.N.
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Tags:haiku, poetry, politics, quote, racism
Posted in Jesse Helms | Comments Off on Jesse Helms
