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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and co... - MORE The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
Karl Kraus
psychiatry | mental illness
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And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
No words to say what it really is, that it is not... - MORE And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
No words to say what it really is, that it is not
Superficial but a visible core, then there is
No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.
John Ashbery
experience | meaning | pathos
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I feel the carousel starting slowly
And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,... - MORE I feel the carousel starting slowly
And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
Me on all sides, everywhere I look.
John Ashbery
anxiety
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... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to... - MORE ... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to
Stringent laws, and that things
Do get done in this way, but never the things
We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
To see come into being.
John Ashbery
accomplishment | art | disappointment
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The soul establishes itself.
But how far can it swim out through the eyes
And still return safely to its nest? - MORE The soul establishes itself.
But how far can it swim out through the eyes
And still return safely to its nest?
John Ashbery
eyes | soul
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Our landscape
Is alive with filiations, shuttlings;
Business is carried on by look, gesture,
Hearsay. - MORE Our landscape
Is alive with filiations, shuttlings;
Business is carried on by look, gesture,
Hearsay.
John Ashbery
communication | landscapes
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Is there anything
To be serious about beyond this otherness... - MORE Is there anything
To be serious about beyond this otherness
That gets included in the most ordinary
Forms of daily activity, changing everything
Slightly and profoundly....
John Ashbery
change | otherness
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The hand holds no chalk
And each part of the whole falls off... - MORE The hand holds no chalk
And each part of the whole falls off
And cannot know it knew, except
Here and there, in cold pockets
Of remembrance, whispers out of time.
John Ashbery
memory | past, the
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The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention. - MORE The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
John Ashbery
attention | soul
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All we know
Is that we are a little early, that... - MORE All we know
Is that we are a little early, that
Today has that special, lapidary
Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe
Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.
John Ashbery
day | sunlight
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