“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean; neither more nor less.”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Archive for the ‘quotables’ Category
word
August 31, 2006prose
August 27, 2006“See how weak prose is…. Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.”
Jack Spicer
laments
August 24, 2006FEMALE VOICE: “The truth is people are pushed around by two men who move all the bodies on earth into patterns that please them.”
MALE VOICE: “I love my mind when it is fucking the cracks of events.”
MALE VOICE: “What I give to all the people who do not want to live with me is arithmetic.”
FEMALE VOICE: “Everyday, I do nothing important because I am scared blank and lazy. But then the men come. I put my mouth on them. I spit and write with the wet.”
MALE VOICE: “I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split.”
Jenny Holzer
cunning
August 17, 2006“Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead.”
Cellarius, The Book of the Machines
tool
August 15, 2006“If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because no one put it there; it’s not the tool’s fault.”
Björk
dancer
August 14, 2006“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.”
Merce Cunningham
listen
August 6, 2006“You must learn to listen before you learn to sing. And you have first to listen to your own breath and then to the self it embodies.”
Sheila Dhar quoting Pandit Pran Nath, published in a Namarupa essay by Marcus Boon
love
August 6, 2006“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you’re someone else.”
Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School
