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authorCase Duckworth2015-03-01 18:07:48 -0700
committerCase Duckworth2015-03-01 18:07:48 -0700
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26Most of the time I think of language as limiting, as defining a thing as the [inverse of everything][] is not. 26Most of the time I think of language as limiting, as defining a thing as the [inverse of everything][] is not.
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28In this way, "everything is everything" becomes "everything is nothing," which is another thing I like to say and something that pisses people off. 28In this way, "everything is everything" becomes "everything is nothing," which is another thing I like to say and something that pisses people off.
29To me, infinity and zero are the same, two ways of looking at the same point on the circle–of numbers, of the universe, whatever. 29To me, infinity and zero are the same, two ways of looking at the same point on the circle---of numbers, of the universe, whatever.
30Maybe it's because I wear an analogue watch, and so my view of time is cyclical, or maybe it's some brain trauma I had in vitro, but whatever it is that's how I see the world, because I'm working against the limitations that language sets upon us. 30Maybe it's because I wear an analogue watch, and so my view of time is cyclical, or maybe it's some brain trauma I had in vitro, but whatever it is that's how I see the world, because I'm working against the limitations that language sets upon us.
31I think that's the role of the poet, or of any artist: to take the over-expansive experience of existing and to boil it down, boil and boil away until there is the ultimate concentrate at the center that is what the poem talks around, at, etc., but never of, because it is ultimately made of language and cannot get to it. 31I think that's the role of the poet, or of any artist: to take the over-expansive experience of existing and to boil it down, boil and boil away until there is the ultimate concentrate at the center that is what the poem talks around, at, etc., but never of, because it is ultimately made of language and cannot get to it.
32A poem is getting as close as possible to the speed of light, to absolute zero, to God, while knowing that it can't get all the way there, and never will. 32A poem is getting as close as possible to the speed of light, to absolute zero, to God, while knowing that it can't get all the way there, and never will.