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

feeling broken,

and that this
is a good thing.

what i have seen
i have not seen

I don't look at a man and think: man.
Nor, for that matter, 
Do I think him ox or pig.
He is I. And as meaningless. 

Shinkichi Takahashi
tr. Lucien Stryk