Posts Tagged ‘quote’
June 13, 2012
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An oracle of
indifference, God never
finishes His work
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Two dangers threaten
the world: the man of sound mind
and the true madman
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Politeness is the
science of charm, abuse and
total massacre
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At times I think, and
at times I am—I feel like
a calculator
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The history of
literature may be summed
up in a word: war
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Poe is the dancer
of disorder, the fire of
dreams and misfortune
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Businessmen should be
under lock and key; it is
a poet’s judgment
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Tags:Cahiers, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Paul Valéry | Comments Off on Paul Valéry
May 22, 2012
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Madonna is an
imbecile abstraction of
Marie Antoinette
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Picasso is the
mother of patriarchy—
self-love is incest
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The chemistry of
feminism is the science
of the prostitute
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All emotion is
Apollonian—we are
drunk with brain music
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Television is
closer to reality
than is human life
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If you live in rock
and roll, the taxidermist
doesn’t repel you
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Sex is the point of
contact between scholarship
and entertainment
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Nancy Pelosi
is a monstrous stimulus
package of dog lust
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There is no female
Mitt Romney because there is
no female Mozart
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Tags:haiku, poetry, quote, Sexual Personae
Posted in Camille Paglia | Comments Off on Camille Paglia
May 9, 2012
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Women are a sweet
fiction; richer in sin, the
shadow of evil
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The inclination
to die is the rational
path to the convent
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The soul, alas, is
a beautiful illusion
born of wayward shame
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Desire is nobler
than remorse; it enthralls more
than reason abides
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Rare is she who will
concede the enchantment of
happily straying
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Tags:haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Comments Off on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
March 6, 2012
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Fundamentalist
Republican consciousness:
lizard falsity
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In America
the spirit of mercy is
largely unexplored
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The conservative
mind: no integrity, just
fascism rusted shut
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A psychedelic
warrior is a stone-faced
shaman-poet head
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The grinding fire of
religion will burn the Right
like baptism lightning
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The frontier of world
revolution is a fat
seismograph of love
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The enigma of
Christian cruelty: death will
pay homage to God
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Tags:Acid Test, Cuckoo's Nest, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Ken Kesey | Comments Off on Ken Kesey
January 3, 2012
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The central problem
of reality is the
sand of memory
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Democracy is
an incomprehensible
series of effects
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Immortality
is a fight between two bald
men over a comb
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To die for art is
easier than to live for
God the destroyer
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A translation is
truth in the divine language
of uncertainty
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The empire of love
is built on a river of
resigned solitude
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Life itself is a
quotation that corrupts life’s
quotation itself
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Causality is
a dream that suppresses the
fact of Paradise
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The future devours
posterity; it is an
ignorant tiger
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Religion is the
coronation of the sphere
of the infinite
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There is a single
moment in which one finds out:
time can’t be measured
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Tags:Ficciones, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Jorge Luis Borges | Comments Off on Jorge Luis Borges
November 18, 2011
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Art is an orgy
of chameleons huge with
monkey dementia
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Art is the highest
degree of normal—super
normal, which is mad
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Art is plunged in snow
like the unlimited steppes
of delirium
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Art is anything
that the commissioner of
police says it’s not
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Art is anything
that the commissioner of
police says it is
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Art is art as long
as it isn’t grasped by man’s
raw smitten fingers
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Art is not in bed
with the State; it sleeps naked
in the dirt with roots
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Art is mimesis.
Art is mimesis. Art is
mimesis. Art is . . .
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Art is contrary.
Art is homogeneous.
Art forgets itself.
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Art is afraid of
extinction—but it scorns all
continuity
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Art is painting but
painting is not art; painting
is mood carpeting
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Art is dirt in the
service of rubbish; art is
fashionable mud
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Art participates
in the creative process
by not being love
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Tags:art, art brut, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Jean Dubuffet | Comments Off on Jean Dubuffet
October 25, 2011
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Somewhere between chance
and mystery lies the grave
seduction of smoke
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Truth doesn’t matter . . .
A daily cocktail of truth
cannot change the world
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What is lovelier
than life without memory?
Amnesia is God!
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A paranoiac
imagination is the
freedom of poets
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Why can’t the Devil
in all His luminousness
make me his consort?
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When you’re naked, age
matters; when you’re in the grave,
age doesn’t matter
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Fortunately, an
exquisite sense of horror
protects me from life
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Oppression of love:
essential spurt of reason,
then bitter regret
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For a writer, the
margin of conformity
tastes of word torture
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Tags:film, haiku, L'Age d'Or, poetry, quote, surrealism, Un Chien Andalou
Posted in Luis Buñuel | Comments Off on Luis Buñuel
October 6, 2011
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Religion will not
regain its old power till
we pray to Science
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Abstinence is not
simplicity; abstinence
is the death of God
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Civilization
advances by extending
its distrust of art
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The human body
is an instrument for the
production of vice
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To make the past live
we must perceive it as the
eternal present
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There are billions of
molecules in the human
soul—they dance like fish
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Ninety percent of
life is pain; the rest is Christ
nailed to a cheap cross
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Immortality
is the everlasting search
for anesthesia
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Of what value is
the attainment of knowledge
if you have no mind?
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Solitariness
is a bagatelle; being
alone is pure zest
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Amid the flux, there
is something that survives: the
need for a large truck
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Put your brain in cold
storage; thinking is merely
abstract inference
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Alfred North Whitehead | Comments Off on Alfred North Whitehead
September 5, 2011
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He who would be pure
must be transformed by the light
of a thousand books
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When God called at home
I had gone out for a walk . . .
Thwarted by action!
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A serene person
needs but one thing: the thick hide
of a simple ox
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I am secure in
the knowledge that God cannot
see my puny soul
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He who has mastered
detachment is the hinge on
the door of sorrow
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Contemplation of
the Eternal Birth will plant
you in the hard ground
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There exists only
yesterday—tomorrow was
many years ago
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God expects but one
thing of you—thank Him that you
know not what it is
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A thousand years hence
the eye of creation will
see only darkness
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The knower is a
creature whose heart is empty
of all compassion
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Meister Eckhart | Comments Off on Meister Eckhart
August 18, 2011
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Leave your memory.
Leave your future. But never
leave your Dada road.
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Love is when you meet
someone who tells you love is
imaginary
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To see art, to hear
art means nothing . . . To write art
is worth even less
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Convulsive desire
produces contradictions
hidden in doomed words
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In the world we live
in children will never have
to happen again
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The exaltation
of beauty is a fleeting
moment of dream death
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Dalí’s the plaything
of incommunicable
despairing freedom
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Between virtue and
vice is the shadow of a
fear I cannot name
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The past hesitates
like an affair of the heart
itself forgotten
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My wife has ceased to
be a waking event . . . She
renounces substance
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Tags:haiku, poetry, pure psychic automatism, quote, surrealism
Posted in André Breton | Comments Off on André Breton
July 24, 2011
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The chief enemy
of truth is the harmony
of the beautiful
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My mother sings like
an alarm clock . . . She’s the egg
of sterility
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I have removed all
traces of reality
from my diary
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If the Pope were a
Minotaur I would be a
monk-soldier of love
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There are only two
types of women: the mirror
and the photograph
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Everything is a
museum, and everything
is in the canon
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What is a cat? The
elimination of the
unnecessary
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Children are useless . . .
The problem is where to put
them when they grow up
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The truth is a lump
of sugar that dissolves in
the bath of old age
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When you’re willing to
die today you can put off
life till tomorrow
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Tags:art, Guernica, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Picasso | Comments Off on Picasso
July 6, 2011
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Bop is dangerous . . .
It’s like the murder of God
with a blue Bible
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A critic is a
man in ruins who wants to
fiddle with your art
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The best jazz is an
energy cloud carried on
the tonal supreme
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The wise musician
is never satisfied with
what he can master
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Tags:haiku, jazz, poetry, quote
Posted in Duke Ellington | Comments Off on Duke Ellington
June 15, 2011
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If the sun does not
rise tomorrow, tyranny
will still rule us all
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A propensity
to hope must be proportioned
with vivid sorrow
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Any man seasoned
with the imperfections of
reason is a knave
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The moral beauty
of Christians gives rise to the
worst of history
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The inclination
to perceive miracles is
the brain’s poverty
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Custom is the great
guide to avarice and the
blood-spill of labor
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Persons acquainted
with the evidence of pure
design see not truth
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The healing temper
of an oyster attests to
its divinity
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Real passion is
in all cases sufficient
to establish vice
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, Scottish Enlightenment
Posted in Hume | Comments Off on Hume
June 1, 2011
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Birth is the conquest
of Christian humility . . .
A nudity bomb
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Expressionism is
the decorative coupling
of eye and psyche
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The ugliness of
pride is the ugliness of
felt reality
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The irrational
has got nothing to do with
the irrational
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Collage is simply
irreconcilable with
juxtaposition
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The spark of a good
idea is lost for all
time in its finding
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The common thrust of
taste does not suit a woman’s
virtue or beauty
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Tags:art, Elephant Celebes, haiku, poetry, quote, surrealism
Posted in Max Ernst | Comments Off on Max Ernst
May 26, 2011
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Reason is a form
of death—a fading away
like rhododendrons
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The right eye is for
painting; the left eye is to
admire the painting
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Dawn was my muse till
she dissolved in the silent
light of forever
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I haven’t got time
for people—I must shovel
coal and chop huge stones
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The task of God is
to plunge your head into a
crematorium
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The novelist peers
into a microscope of
transfixed air—and breathes
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It is the duty
of the artist to simply
derange everything
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Tags:art, haiku, horse, poetry, quote, surrealism
Posted in Leonora Carrington | Comments Off on Leonora Carrington
May 21, 2011
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Dissonant music
is a crocodile dawn that
breaks like a pistol
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God is a ruin . . .
A blind, inexhaustible,
obtuse idiot
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Virtue is ugly . . .
Inert, impersonal, a
stuffed bear of passion
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An audience should
be mummified—silence is
an ovation’s fire
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Tradition is an
unwavering excuse to
demolish the world
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Tags:'Pataphysics, haiku, poetry, quote, Ubu Roi
Posted in Alfred Jarry | Comments Off on Alfred Jarry
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