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"Logics are like constellations
A thing itself when it’s full of its own interpretation
And since you can’t stop there, some people are logical to dream in perfect flowers"
—Lyn Hejinian, The Book of a Thousand Eyes

"You can never describe what is there, only what you see, so that what is there—if this is something you want to hold onto as well—gets its own language, somewhere underneath or throughout yours."
—Renee Gladman, Calamities

"but if you do not even understand what words say
how can you expect to pass judgment
on what words conceal?"
—H.D., The Walls Do Not Fall

"Certain themes are incurable."
—Lyn Hejinian, 'A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking’

"They’re hardly divisible, sir–well, I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory–they’re all blood, you see."
—Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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