hey, psyche

I learned there’s nothing more shaming
or as memorable as an intimacy
unreturned. And turned, therefore,
to the expected silence of a page,
where I might simultaneously assert
and hide, be my own disappointment,
which saved me for a while.
But soon the page whispered
I’d mistaken its vastness for a refuge,
its whiteness for a hospital
for the pathetic. Fill me up, it said,
give me sorrow because I must have joy,

all the travails of love because
distances are where the safe reside.
Bring to me, it said, continual proof
you’ve been alive.

from "Turning to the Page," by Stephen Dunn

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Feb. 19, 2013 at 9:43pm with 3 notes

john cage

“

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.

— John Cage

Sep. 11, 2012 at 11:21pm with 94 notes

Reblogged from msmybeloved

John Cage

“

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

— John Cage

(Source: bigmisterc)

Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:35am with 187 notes

Reblogged from sirobtep

John Cage

nprmusic:

Today would have been the 100th birthday of John Cage, a radical composer and music philosopher that continues to challenge our notion of sound, and NPR Music has a number of features lined up.

Let’s start with an oldie, but a goodie from 2000 on All Things Considered: The Story Of ‘4’33”’.

(Source: doattime-arthistory.blogspot.it)