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“When you choose to be a poet,
you become a place that people walk through
and then leave when they are ready”
― Helium
you become a place that people walk through
and then leave when they are ready”
― Helium
“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
― The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
― The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
“I hope you take a lover who sails a different ship.”
― Pillow Thoughts
― Pillow Thoughts
“I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.”
― Bright Dead Things
― Bright Dead Things
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
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