Being or nothing, that is the question

      We are never real historians, but always near poets... 

   -Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Image: Federico Hurtado, Portraits Without Masks
Title: Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro

The poem is not a vehicle, it is an act of transportation

“Tourists don’t know where they have been. Travelers don’t 

 

know where they are going.”
 

 

-Paul Theroux

Image: Otto Steinert
Title: Eliot Weinberger, “The River”

Between the Cry and Silence

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.

-G. K. Chesterton

Image: Salvador Dalí, The portrait of Federico García Lorca 
Title: From Octavio Paz, “André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning. Alternating Current” 

The Poet & Nonrecognition

-Giorgio Agamben, Profanations