November 2010
19 posts
“I think I was thinking when I was ahead I’d be somewhere like Perry Street erudite dazzling slim and badly loved contemplating my new book of poems to be printed in simple type on old brown paper feminine marvelous and tough.”
Ted Berrigan, 1963
A Poet’s Advice e. e. cummings
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel—but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling—not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single...
“art is a sort of experimental station in which one tries out living.” - john cage
bobulate:
Robert Sapolsky on the human brain confusing the literal and metaphorical:
See also: How the brain has trouble distinguishing between dirty scoundrels and those in need of a bath
Volunteers were asked to evaluate the resumes of supposed job applicants where, as the critical variable, the resume was attached to a clipboard of one of two different weights. Subjects who evaluated the...
