October 30, 2010

Chaos is the basis for the individual.

October 29, 2010

Why be human if being human
is so difficult? Become the lamp
by the roadside that quietly sheds
its light on man.
Be as it is, for as it is
he will always have a human face.
Be good to him, this man,
and impartial like a lamp
that quietly illuminates the faces
of drunkards, vagabonds and students
along the solitary road.

Be a lamp
if you can't be human,
for being human is difficult.
A human has just two hands
but he should help thousands.
So be a lamp by the roadside
shining on a thousand happy faces,
shining for the lonely, the aimless.
Be a lamp with a single light,
man in a magic square
signaling with a green arm.
Be a lamp, a lamp,
a lamp.

October 28, 2010

even the light
bows to the pebbles
and their silence

October 27, 2010

I had no life, had to find whether one was possible. If so, whether it was worth keeping.

October 24, 2010

Clarity, too, has it mirages.
Yves Bonnefoy
tr. Richard Pevear

October 20, 2010

various kinds
of wonders
have lost their wonder
wonderland is headed
for its own destruction
Tada Chimako
tr. Jeffrey Angles

October 16, 2010

I again learned to speak and I wept
when a word escaped me.
Ingeborg Bachmann
tr. Peter Filkins
Between a word and a thing
you only encounter yourself,
lying between each as if next to someone ill,
never able to get to either.
Ingeborg Bachmann
tr. Peter Filkins
At the risk of appearing self-contradictory, I do not believe art is understood through intellectual operations, but rather that we intercept the outline of a certain manner of treating (being in) the world.

October 13, 2010

art is perhaps the most glorious of failures

October 7, 2010

DISGUST IS THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO MOST SITUATIONS

Jenny Holzer

October 3, 2010

The there of things, the auroral there, is not inert. It shifts constantly, imperceptibly.
(Le des choses, auroral, n’est pas inerte. Remue sans cesse, imperceptiblement.)

Roger Munier