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the curtains breathe with the light

...there is no salvation even in considering oneself a small animal.

Takashi Hiraide

three words on a brick wall
the world breaking
through the concrete below

The unnamable 
held you 
at a distance, in reverence.

Pura López-Colomé

not to make the weak strong
but rather to find the strength of the weak

There needs to be more poems written based on the very fear of human existence itself.

Tamura Ryuichi

Colour is the place where the mind and the universe meet.

Paul Cezanne

The minute one says one is happy, one isn't anymore.

Pierre Bonnard

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing one sees is not a flower, nothing one imagines is not the moon.

Basho
tr. David Barnhill

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Ernst Fischer

The sun and your heart are made of the same material.

Pierre Reverdy
tr. Kenneth Rexroth

Strip oneself of the imaginary royalty of the world.

Simone Weil

another being a specific direction

that things
are merely places
within the space
stretching between

poetry is not a literary activity directed toward the production of texts, but the most fundamental form of human relations.  (la poésie n’est pas une activité littéraire orientée vers la production de textes, mais la forme la plus fondamentale des rapports interhumains)

Yves Bonnefoy

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

suspending rope bridges from one cloud to another

Intelligence is a moral category.

Adorno

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself.

Georg Groddeck

the significance of the small and insignificant

An eye that simplifies to the point of desolation.

Franz Kafka

opening the tombs we would discover that all the dead have fled

a past as close
or as distant
as any present

Would technology exist if we weren't riddled with fear?

I was in hospital once. There was a man in another ward, dying of throat cancer. In the silences I could hear his screams continually. That's the only kind of form my work has.

Samuel Beckett

There is a goal in all things. To arrive there you must remove yourself from yourself.

Brancusi

A great dancer is not one who makes a difficult step look easy, but one who makes an easy step look interesting.

Rudolf Nureyev

When you listen to yourself, it's not literature you hear.

Samuel Beckett

Thinking is perhaps, after all, an unavoidable path, which refuses to be a path of salvation and brings no new wisdom.

Martin Heidegger
The Thing, in Poetry, Language, Thought pg. 57

In principle nothingness remains inaccessible to science.

Martin Heidegger

to see death
is to see another, never oneself.

Shinkichi Takahashi
tr. Lucien Stryk

Because I am not silent, the poems are bad. 

George Oppen