. . . he recommended to all those who might be impressed with a sense of their importance to bury a copy or copies of each work properly...

In the far future, with our dug-up bones, Archaeologists will unearth our phones . . .

We'll bring the dodo back, too, one day.

A promisory outcome is wanted by the banks.

Oh, God, make small The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.—T. E. Hulme I thought—that’s...

“Forget grammar and think about potatoes.”—Gertrude Stein   “History is the pack of lies agreed upon,” Napoleon said—or was it old...

Its formula escapes you; it has lost The certainty that constitutes a thing. —W. H. Auden, “Brussels in Winter” Born into the British...

Fyodor Dostoevsky, manuscript of The Brothers Karamazov (1880) "Bad day. Rainy day. Permeated by the suspicion that I am worn out and...

Chaïm Soutine, The Table (ca. 1923), oil on canvas. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Every angel is terrible. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino...

If all the good people were clever,     And all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever    We thought that it...

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / And the crack in the tea-cup opens / A lane to the land of the...

Wide to destruction the freeway flows

Forgotten words hide but for a moment

Lines riffing on "Denk nicht zuviel von dem was keiner weiss!" by Stefan George, in Der Stern des Bundes ("The Star of the Covenant")...

“It’s certainty that makes one mad, not doubt.”―Nietzsche, Ecce Homo A hae ma doots! * And well I might —necessity has doubt in sight;...