Posts Tagged ‘quote’
March 20, 2014
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Appropriation
is the understructure of
articulation
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Visibility
engenders hostility:
the frightening seen!
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Intuition is
the piss that waters the loss
of hierarchies
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Authorship is a
fraudulent readymade, a
vague imposition
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The cybernetic
excess of America
is retard funny
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Repetition is
the displacement of space with
continuity
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Deleuze and Foucault
are the big bang of mental
exhaustion—fuck them!
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Duchamp and Warhol
are a pervasive turn-on
with no threat of sex
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[Sturtevant is virtually unrepresented on quote sites. All text pooled from interviews with Peter Halley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Bruce Hainley.]
Tags:art, copy, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Elaine Sturtevant | Comments Off on Elaine Sturtevant
March 4, 2014
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I’d like to put the
Beatles in formaldehyde . . .
but it would be wrong
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I was brought up a
Catholic; I don’t have to
believe in England
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Love is like a sheep
collage, and you can always
get another sheep
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The goal of life is
immortality—I would
like to deviate
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Contemporary
art is ridiculous; so
is integrity
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Every crass artist
has to reinvent Pollock
without a canvas
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Hardcore poetics
is Philip Larkin writing
about an ashtray
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America is
a medicine cabinet
floating in vomit
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There is nothing more
morbid than advertising—
it’s a death funfair
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Tags:art, haiku, poetry, quote, YBA
Posted in Damien Hirst | Comments Off on Damien Hirst
January 22, 2014
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Paintings and films are
really just like toilet seats
and shower curtains
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Artificial sex
is like eating peanuts: once
you start you can’t stop
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Pop Art will ball you,
but Abstract Expressionism
will come in your mouth
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The President is
always lying. So what? I
try not to notice.
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Love is Liz Taylor
having a Coke and a hot
dog in a limo
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Poor people won’t be
reincarnated—they have
no real incentive
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America has
a long tradition of great
refrigerators
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Mystery is the
mother of art, but money
is its weak husband
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The richest people
have no problems, no defects,
and they’re not boring
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There’s a difference
between plastic and empty:
empty is shiny
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/madison-moore/2013/05/the-41-greatest-andy-warhol-quotes/
Tags:15 minutes, art, haiku, poetry, Pop, quote
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December 23, 2013
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A museum is
a hospital of serpents,
a roaring death horse
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The fisticuffs of
my lips sing of metalized
love and injustice
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Patriotism is
individualism: a
steel temple of pride
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Open your heart to
unknown forces in order
to overcome art
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Indomitable
Woman, a rioting Moon,
imperishable
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The skyscraper is
the greedy locomotive
of time’s uselessness
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Poetry must be
as immortal as plastic,
an absurd ruin
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Tags:fascism, futurism, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in F.T. Marinetti | Comments Off on F.T. Marinetti
December 7, 2013
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The contemplation
of absolute darkness is
the horror of love
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The boundary which
divides art from life is the
fire of the insane
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Religion is the
madness of the soul and the
poetry of tears
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Death always has a
generous effect on a
woman’s eloquence
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Science is a crime,
and sanity a fraud, a
mind-atrocity
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Faith is a dream of
Christ with long intervals of
gossamer terror
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Nothing shall turn me
from an abhorrence of cats:
they are fear, evolved
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The irrational
imagination is pure
analytic truth
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Tags:haiku, horror, madness, poetry, quote
Posted in Poe | Comments Off on Poe
November 19, 2013
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Plagiarism is work—
there is always a demand
for fresh plagiarism
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To see the blue tree
of salvation is to be
blinded by mad dreams
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Philosophy is
art; nature is art; prepared
ignorance is art
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Each generation
must cultivate its taste for
great stupidity
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Civilization
is an expression of pure
mediocrity
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Power concentrates
the little machine of the
brain and gives it teeth
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The invisible
beast of revolution will
fire eternity
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The eye of virtue
assigns radiance to the
degenerate life
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The consecrated
individualism of
beauty is revenge
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There are two sorts of
senile critic: the scoundrel
and the old scoundrel
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Timidities of
sensation are scattered in
the ashes of form
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Tags:art, haiku, painting, quote, Tahiti
Posted in Gauguin | Comments Off on Gauguin
October 31, 2013
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Treat the wicked with
patience and compassion—but
help them to perish
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Existence is a
small fish in the water of
faithful nonbeing
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The Way of Heaven
is a music unheard by
the conquering gods
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The attainment of
nothing creates contentment;
nothing is wisdom
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The good traveler
moves in the shadow of the
paradoxical
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The greatest joy is
the courage to know that there
is no greatest joy
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When I let go of
what I am, my fingers touch
the source of my self
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A leader is a
goose. A scholar is an ox.
A sage is an ant.
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Death is a series
of small desires—it is the
flower of nature
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, taoism
Posted in Lao Tzu (Laozi) | Comments Off on Lao Tzu (Laozi)
October 21, 2013
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The spoken word is
the immediate truth of
animal knowledge
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Nature is the great
despoiler of beauty, an
uncivilized jest
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The scholar sees the
value in everything but
corporeal thought
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The dialectic
is pure light and pure darkness
in perfect conflict
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When liberty is
mentioned, universal rights
mean nothing at all
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Without shoes that fit,
little will be accomplished
in the real world
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Man is too divine
for Providence; he is the
total creation
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The history of
Germany depends on the
judgment of heroes
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Consciousness is the
external reality
of intuition
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The mere idea
of government rests solely
on servants’ logic
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Tags:dialectic, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Hegel | Comments Off on Hegel
October 6, 2013
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My ass always has
need of God; my head always
has need of Satan
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The essence of a
man is his shirt and trousers—
naked, he’s nothing
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All pleasure is pain
disguised as misery and
bald indifference
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The unaesthetic
is as indispensable
as the family
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There are only two
categories: life and death.
They bore everyone.
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Knowledge is like art—
it lasts only five minutes,
useless and tiring
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Concubinage is
marriage that takes liberties
with monotony
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Paradise is the
blue music of immortal,
bearable failure
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Tags:art, Dada, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Francis Picabia | Comments Off on Francis Picabia
September 24, 2013
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Frightening dreams are
silenced only by the blue
of Man’s suffering
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If you hear a voice
within you, disregard it
with your inmost strength
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If you don’t paint the
stars, your soul is forsaken,
a wisp of warm smoke
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I am still far from
God, lost, a churchwarden in
the dirtiest hut
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Life is a yellow
storm on an orange sea—a
fantasy of love
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My heart is the slave
of conscience without courage—
small deeds, small mistakes
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Religion is a
terrible certainty of
high-minded reason
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My faith is a poor
fisherman who is always
remaining ashore
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Fallibility
and discouragement fire the
imagination
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Tags:art, haiku, painting, poetry, quote, Starry Night
Posted in Vincent van Gogh | Comments Off on Vincent van Gogh
August 22, 2013
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The news is abused—
cold code strained through inverted
subjectivity
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Assassination
is the struggle to find words
that describe genius
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The sufficiency
of average-sized eyes is
a harrowing joke
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Florida is an
agony of moribund
class repetition
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Plagiarism is the
spectacle emanating
from silent mourning
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A soft text wrapped in
shock iconizes the breasts
of cultural whim
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The gargantuan
problem of discourse is the
horror of language
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Conceptualism:
Minimalism plus Michael
Jackson’s memories
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[Goldsmith is virtually unrepresented on quote sites. All text pooled from his interview with Christopher Higgs in the Paris Review, 2013]
Tags:conceptual writing, haiku, poetry, quote
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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
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