Aphorisms
Aphorisms By Warren GastonWhy poetry breaks things?
Poetry breaks things that need to be broken so that new life can arise in the wreck.
METAMORPHOSIS: Here’s the Thing . . .
Things become other things and on and on . . . ______________________________________________ for example: with the aid of human ingenuity, soil and rain become wheat which becomes flour which becomes batter which becomes a birthday cake which becomes a celebration...
A Poet’s Notebook: unfinished
I want to find a way to give voice to shadows, not as the absence of light but as the absence of lies. _____________________________ I like these four lines, these twenty three words. Someday I will discover where they want to go.
Learning from Jesus
Do not spend time looking in the gospels for what Jesus taught that you agree with already. Find something Jesus said that you find disagreeable and spend time working on that. _______________________________________________________________ hint: Matthew 5:44,...
The Fantasy of Freedom
There are only jailors or inmates. Most of us are both and few of us are neither. 8/12/98
Learning Not to Know
I am conducting an experiment in definitive vagueness. So far I have learned much that is unclear. Now I am studying things so imprecise they can only be measured by imagination. In the process I have discovered numerous things that are clearly ambiguous. All this has...
Damage
There is the damage that needs to be fixed and the unintended damage caused by the fixes.
The Surrealist’s Reality
Salvador Dali dreamed he was painting. When he woke up he was painting a dream.
Aphorism #7
A poet thickens experience with words so a moment is captured in a concentrated form enabling others to experience that moment as well. ________________________________________________________________________ poet = an artist who uses words as a painter uses paint or...