pickA phenomenal dive into the life of the minds of two artists working their asses off for cultural and artistic progression, freedom, and journeying. The whole book is enlightening, constantly keeping me thrilled with intellectual leaps and feints, twists into unknown, uncertain territory, with the willingness to be exploratory and open-ended and constantly interested making a big impact on me.
I'm so glad I read this!
We‘re all limited by what we can know and what we‘re able to feel. And by our language.
Writing is the most abstract art of all—not so much because language is less sensuous than paint or music, but because the everyday use of language gets us in the killing habit that Hegel talks about. We immediately replace the word by the concept, and the sentence by its meaning. As soon as we‘ve understood, the words are annulled, forgotten.
As I begin working, far from having an “epiphany” to express, I have only a vague nucleus of energy running to words. As soon as I start LISTENING to the words, they reveal their own vectors and affinities, pull the poem into their own field of force, often in unforeseen directions, away from the semantic charge of the original impulse.
Keeping / the Window Open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursions | 
