Quote #104

Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

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  1. Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.
  2. Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
  3. We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
  4. Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.
  5. The clouds preceded us. There was a muddy centre before we breathed. There was a myth before the myth began, Venerable and articulate and c…
  6. My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
  7. The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And eve made air the mirror of herself, Of her sons and of her dau…
  8. It must be visible or invisible, Invisible or visible or both: A seeing and unseeing in the eye. The weather and the giant of the weather, …

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