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"I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.' " --John Cage

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/cage-quotes.html

#poetry #ModPo #poetics #poems #John Cage

Mac Low's "timbres, attacks, amplitudes, durations (both of sounds & silences), & rhythms"

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/maclow-moore-explanation.html

#poetry #@ModPo #Jakson Mac Low #poet

thepaintedbench

#poetry #micropoetry #Sylvia Plath

Ron Silliman's "BART"

Found this typewritten version of “BART” in a PDF of BEZOAR, apparently a poetry “magazine” of sorts published in 1976—the same year Ron Silliman composed BART onboard BART.

#poetry #language poets #poem #BART #Ron Silliman

thepaintedbench

#poetry #poem #e.e. cummings

Mother and Baby

Photograph by Paul Damien, National Geographic

#photo #photography #mother #child #National Geographic

I need quiet, listen—with tiny ears whispering—the spider tells me

#poetry #haiku #micropoetry

meanlesbean

Empty pages laugh at me you’ll write that off as metaphor or personification or even some goddamn alliteration if you take out your microscope but the voices of blank pages grab on to my split ends and they yell yawp cry scream and holler all the way begging me to record the world and...

#poetry #writing #writer's block #poem

Witch goes Tiny Witch, cast-speller divine? Found This tiny1 witch hiding up in the corner of the attic Thought she was a spider—maybe (Though it could’ve of been a warlock He!) Such was the distance, the angle2, & the darkness Or some tiny bird with tinny-weenie-tiny feathers covering her face Redundantly swinging to & fro, you dust your tiny dress & laugh at me just so precisely . . .

Witch goes Tiny

#poetry #poem #my poem #modern #post-modern

Jónsi Go Quiet

#Jónsi #music #soprano #ukalele #experimental

Alan Watts - Think of Nothing

#death #poetry #existence #existentialism #life #Alan Watts

Methinks I have a problem understanding life as a dream —this sad story of waking one day, repeatedly

#poetry #micropoetry #poem

2.2. Poetry differs from nonsense in being incontrovertible. It cannot be proved to be nonsense, that nothing is being said.

#poetry #mathematics #criticism #Ben Mazer

#poetry #micropoetry

gingerstgeorge-deactivated20160

Puedo Escribir (Tonight I Can Write) - Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, “The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.”

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and...

#poetry #translation #Pablo Neruda #poem

tocontinueunabated

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as a moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already - the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important. I should sugar and preserve my days like fruit! My mirror is clouding over- A few more breaths, and it will reflect nothing at all. The flowers and the faces whiten to a sheet.

Sylvia Plath (from Last Words)

#poetry #Sylvia Plath #poem #Last Words

I’ll follow you to the end of the world To where you fall off remembering

#poetry #micropoetry

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