Paul

“I write poetry because the English word Inspiration comes from Latin Spiritus, breath, I want to breathe freely.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1997

“modern science itself agrees that we don’t really see with our eyes. They are merely links in a long chain stretching from the sun, through sunlight and atmosphere and illuminated objects, through eye lenses and retinae and optic nerves, right down to particle/wavicle-haunted space in a region of the brain, where at last (it’s said) seeing really occurs.”
― Douglas E. Harding, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

“The mere flowing of the water is a gaiety,”
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“that process of miraculous verisimilitude, that great copying which evolution has followed, repeating move for move every move that it made in the past”
― William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939