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End
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Nov 07, 2020

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

Nature
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Nov 07, 2020

Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Alone
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Nov 07, 2020

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

Coming
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Nov 07, 2020

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

How
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Nov 07, 2020

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Concern
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Nov 07, 2020

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Perhaps
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Nov 07, 2020

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

Nov 07, 2020

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Others
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Nov 07, 2020

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Nov 07, 2020

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

Decision
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Nov 07, 2020

In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

Liberty
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

Nov 07, 2020

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

Nov 07, 2020

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Language
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Nov 07, 2020

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

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