StandingAtTheFence

“Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it. This might also be a form of dreaming.”

What is hell like? / Wait and see, it is what man is turning the world into.

“One cannot understand reality without understanding cinema, photography, 3D modeling, animation, or other forms of moving or still image. The world is imbued with the shrapnel of former images … Reality itself is postproduced and scripted, affect rendered as after-effect. Far from being opposites across an unbridgeable chasm, image and world are in many cases just versions of each other … This assigns a new role to image production, and in consequence also to people who deal with it.”

Poetry suspends time. Poetry is time. Poetry gives us time. A story or a poem is like a living body; we need only tell the few, precise pulse points to feel the heart of it leaping in its skin. Those details are the flare in the desert, a signal from a boat mid-ocean, the cry of the abandoned, the ones caught in a trap who must be freed. To rescue, to name what must not be forgotten. Sunday evening, winter morning, November dusk. We belong where love finds us.

My job is not just to interpret or describe realities but to create them through language and action, symbols and images... Our task is to write against the edict that ­ women should fear their own darkness, that we not broach it in our writings.

“We think with the entire body, or rather, we have to acknowledge the embodiment of the brain, and the embrainment of the body.”

An ancient heavenly [...] hypnotic trance.

"But this is my own maze, she told herself, this is the maze I grew up in; I could not be a prisoner here; I know the way so perfectly, and she turned and was further lost."

[A]ny pain caused by unhappy experiences, whatever their nature, has something in common with mourning. It reactivates the infantile depressive position; the encountering and overcoming of adversity of any kind entails mental work similar to mourning.