Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com
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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch
The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler
If its total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesnt even have to play. – Alice Cooper
