Becoming and Personality

Postmodern feeling has idealized regressive concerns by exalting the spirit over the arrangement of surfaces it animates. The aim was to overcome the dialectic of the one and the many, which has already marginalized our poetry, and to replace it with the diabolism of totality. Has the attempt been successful?

Poetry is inextricably bound to politics. It is the function of a poem to extricate an emotion from the policy that governs it.

Melancholy converts necessity into contingency.

The image is easy. It is what can be can seen without strain and done without effort.

Appearances are not always illusions, nor surfaces always impenetrable.

Aphorisms

An aphorism downplays what it overstates.

I don't know if that's true but I thought I should start with one. I need an outlet for aphorisms. This place is as good as any.