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Kenneth Koch
“Do not be defeated by the
Feeling that there is too much for you to know. That
is a myth of the oppressor. You are
Capable of understanding life. And it is yours alone.
And only this time.”
― Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love: Poems

John Ashbery
“Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?
The harbor cold to the mating ships,
And you have lost as you stand by the balcony
With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath.
A strong impression torn from the descending light
But night is guilty. You knew the shadow
In the trunk was raving
But as you keep growing hungry you forget.
The distant box is open. A sound of grain
Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we
Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.”
― John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath

C.L.R. James
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

E.E. Cummings
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

Julius Evola
“[...] la civilisation moderne ne doit pas être considérée comme une civilisation « active », mais comme une civilisation d’agités et de névropathes. Comme compensation du «travail» et de l’usure d’une vie qui s’abrutit dans une agitation et une production vaines, l’homme moderne, en effet, ne connaît pas l’otium classique, le recueillement, le silence, l’état de calme et de pause qui permettent de revenir à soi-même et de se retrouver. Non: il ne connaît que la «distraction» (au sens littéral, distraction signifie «dispersion») ; il cherche des sensations, de nouvelles tensions, de nouveaux excitants, comme autant de stupéfiants psychiques. Tout, pourvu qu’il échappe à lui-même, tout, pourvu qu’il ne se retrouve pas seul avec lui-même, isolé du vacarme du monde extérieur et de la promiscuité avec son «prochain».”
― Julius Evola, L'arco e la clava

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