Lyn Hejinian Quotes

#1. I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

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#2. A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

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#3. Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.

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#4. The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

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#5. Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost
Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

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#6. A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history
certain humans are situations.

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#7. To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

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#8. In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come.

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#9. People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

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#10. Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on,
let's say that every possibility waits

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#11. The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

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