Caveat lector.. “..Truly created beings are meanings set up in images. All who grasp this are among the people of discernment..” Ibn Habib: al-Maghribi. Gnostics see from the heart, which is the intellect’s seat. ‘ahlil ‘ibar – people of discernment, people of discrimination. I discriminate. “..Smash the control images. Smash the control machine…” William S. […]
Poetry
Poetry, mine or others’
Quote, on avant gardes and american poetry
“..My eighth observation is that there is really no longer a vital, high-art avant-garde in American poetry. Modernism is irretrievably, inarguably dead. It has been dead as a profitable avenue for young poets for at least twenty years, and now almost all of its great practitioners have gone to meet their maker. The university, an […]
ancient Jailhouse Poetry found in a history book…
The translation is choppy, but the sentiment strikes me deep. “Ask him who taunts us with the vissitudes of fortune; has fortune ever thwarted any but men of worth?Look at the sea: do not carcasses float on the surface, while pearls lie deep on its bottom?If the hands of trouble have fastened upon us and […]