I N F I N T U M: Asceticism is the counterpoint to a life of pleasure & the oasis ;
the ancient horizontal background; unsettled life;
ecstasy of nothingness;
grave difficulty,
unbroken wind &
absence of water & shadow;
come to forget how to speak until purification and revelation.
"THEN I BEGAN SEEING POETRY AS NOT MERELY A SHARING OF HUMAN SECRETS, BUT A SHARING OF EVEN THE NON-HUMAN, THE COSMIC, UNIVERSAL, ARCHETYPAL KNOWLEDGE OF SOMETHING BEYOND MY OWN LIFE, YOU KNOW, BEYOND MY OWN EMBARRASSMENTS, BEYOND MY OWN LOVES"
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ReplyDeletetrue words forces everyone to work outside of them. be alert and quiet in the nothingness.