Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
John CageNot one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
John CageThere was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that donโt have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Donโt have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
John CageI was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.
John Cage