Two Robert Wyatt Quotes: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2024/04/robe...
“…I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world.”
- Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter
2/2 "The climax comes with the repeated line: ‘You’ve planted all your ever-lasting hatred in my heart.’ Robert’s voice remains neutral, but it is the angriest line he has ever recorded...”
– Marcus O’Dair, Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt
1/2 “Alfie’s lyrics were inspired by TV footage of a Lebanese woman left stupefied after her house had been blown to smithereens. [...] We hear that ‘something unbelievable has happened to the floor,’ that the stairs have gone, and finally that the house has been blown apart."
“Before we get to that I want to say the word “courage” is in the word “encourage.” I think about that a lot. For me to develop courage, I needed to be encouraged.”
– Lynne Tillman, The Mystery of Perception
PME-ART is looking for 4 participants to co-create and perform our next show: static1.squarespace.com/static/610c1...
"But part of it is that if you are really committed to working collectively you have to give up some of your preciousness around style."
– Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
"For the past five or six months I haven’t especially liked any of the books I’ve read and, perhaps subconsciously, this has led to a current situation in which I’ve basically stopped reading books..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
"...everything I write, of course, / Is an extended metaphor for something I never mention."
– Hugh MacDiarmid
"A day is nothing: there is just time to become yourself, and then night is upon you."
– Petronio Álvarez
“I don’t know about you, but I only have one life, and I don’t want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.”
– Wallace Shawn
Write what you don’t know, tell don’t show, using a multiplicity of ever-shifting voices.
Melancholy is the depression that says yes to life.
“Like all men, he was simply given bad times in which to live.”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Due to the Montreal ice storm, the rock band Journey has postponed its Wednesday night concert and will play on Friday instead. Tickets purchased for Wednesday will be honoured.
"The knowledge that hubris leads to a fatal misstep. The hubris that glows with stupidity. The stupidity that is simply another name for malice..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
The artist who didn’t know how to be an artist anymore.
"Because the bird flew before there was a word for flight, there will one day be a word for what you and I do"
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
"Desire is, among other things, a function of repetition, or so the very patterns of your life have led you to believe."
- John Keene, Annotations
"I often think of artistic collaboration as a difficult friend, a friend I’m happy to have but who at any moment might do something that would make me extremely unhappy." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/03/indi...
"Virtuosity annoys me, it confuses art with prowess."
- Édouard Levé
“Akiwenzii is tired. Tired of acting like they are too old to be scared. [...] Tired of the way what is most dear to them gets deployed and misused and performed. Tired of putting a happy goddamn spin on the end of the world.”
– Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming
"A poem only becomes poetry when its structure
Is made not of words but forces.
The force is poetry.
Everyone knows what poetry is, but who can say it?
Its nature is to be felt, but never apprehended."
- Cecilia Vicuña
“And so we embody the dead. Their most characteristic gestures, preferences, postures, signatures of speech & perceptions, possess us, take up residence in those of us who remain.”
— Betsy Warland, Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss
move slow and repair things
"Obsessions are the most durable form of intellectual capital."
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Is there a moment coming in the near to distant future when the U.S. will be working to cut off China's oil supply, and China will be able to say: that's okay, we no longer need so much oil, we have enough renewable energy to get by?
“Everything Paul knew boiled down to this one gimmick: try for what you want.”
― Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"She had become the kind of reader authors dream of, for whom each sentence revises the universe."
- Harry Mathews, Cigarettes
"I didn’t want to be invisible, though sometimes I treated others at though they themselves were. My notebook in my hands changing the energy in the room. All of us do this, change the rooms we’re in."
– Amina Cain, Indelicacy
