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The holiness of the real
Is always there, accessible
In total immanence. The nodes
Of transcendence coagulate
In you, the experiencer,
And in the other, the lover.

— Kenneth Rexroth In Defense of the Earth (1956)

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Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

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There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

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Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

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What happened instead of apocalypse and judgment was a long-drawn-out apocalypse of counterrevolution against the promise and potential of a humane civilization.

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Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness."

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