In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division between the poetic and prosaic. Everything must have been tinged with magic. Thor was not the god of thunder; he was the thunder and the god. For a true poet, every […]

It is the creation as such of those poets who have seized or often have invented their own means of production and of distribution. The autonomy of the poets is of singular importance here—not something we’ve been stuck with faute de mieux but something we’ve demanded as a value that must (repeat: must) remain first […]

De waanzinnige mysticus wordt niet bestormd door beelden, maar bestormt zelf de beelden. Mystiek kan worden gekarakteriseerd als de zoektocht naar en de ervaring van de onmiddellijkheid van god. De mysticus is niet tevreden met kennis óver god, hij verlangt naar vereniging mét god. Hij zoekt naar god, of het ultieme, als doel op zichzelf […]

Vandaag verkies ik deze schrijver boven die andere; morgen is het de beurt aan een werk dat ik gisteren verachte. De creaties van de geest (en de principes die hen leiden) volgen het lot van onze stemmingen, onze leeftijd, onze koortsen en onze teleurstellingen. We stellen al wat we vroeger liefhadden ter discussie, en we […]

The way up and down is one and the same. This is true: a staircase is both up and down simultaneously, the only difference is whether you are ascending or descending. How can a centipede control a thousand legs at once? because he doesn’t think about it.

Sell a country, why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.