To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. [ ]
Tis a green scene With many white mouths: The trumpet-mouths Of bindweed Begoddening The sun-begoldened air. And the hoverfly To the fleabane s eye Sweets soft songs I catch nor match. Yet fleabane s eye To hoverfly: Παντοπόρνη!
Inky Bloaters (1987) is the name of an album by psycho-songstress Danielle Dax. Frinky growthers are those who are interested in frincremental growth. That s growth by fractions, as in the equation x = x + 1/x. If the initial x = 1, its frincremental growth looks like this: 1 1 + 1/1 = 1 + [ ]
O blade-wing bird No wisest word Can capture in thy grace! Thou soar dst the air And cleans dst the care That clustered in this place. O blade-wing bird, The Muse hath stirred My brain to wing d verse: So sword the sky And sweet for aye Our swarm d Pandoric curse! O blade-wing bird No wisest word Can [ ]
While I play New Order, let s view order. Below are some rational fractions ordered by increasing size of denominator (the lower part of the fraction, e.g. the 7 in 3/7) and numerator (the upper part of the fraction, e.g. the 5 in 5/9). Note the positions of 1/2 and 1/7: 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, [ ]
Lucretius (1869) by Alfred Tennyson Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had died Between them, tho he loved her none the less, Yet often when the woman heard his foot Return from pacings in the field, and ran To greet him with [ ]
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum Wikipedia says: The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words φῦκος (phûkos) seaweed , and δέρμα (dérma) skin . That s obviously wrong for dérma, but I can t find a definitive etymology.
Die Ros ist ohn warumb; sie blühet weil sie blühet. Angelus Silesius (1624-77) La rosa es sin porqué; florece porque florece Borges translation La rose est sans pourquoi ; elle fleurit parce qu elle fleurit. La rosa è senza perché; fiorisce perché fiorisce. De roos is zonder waarom; zij bloeit omdat zij bloeit. الوَرْدَةُ [ ]