You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.