Poetry&Stuffby
MARNE KILATES
MARNE
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KRIPTS
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
from
Antinostalgia & the Tokhang
Rhapsodies
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
Poems 2022
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
From Mga Biyahe, Mga Estasyon
From Journeys, Junctions
(a collection of travel poems)
Marne's Café: Juicy
Juicy, off-the-shelf bits & pieces
from all over, from whenever
We may differ in what little we know but we are all equal in the infinitude of our ignorance.
—Karl Popper
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Time is an eternity that stammers.
—Umberto Eco, Baudolino
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
—T.S. Eliot
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A Silly Poem
Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?
—Spike Milligan
Poetry is indispensable—if I only knew what for.
—Jean Cocteau
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INTERVIEWER
Have you read The Da Vinci Code?
UMBERTO ECO
Yes, I am guilty of that too.
INTERVIEWER
That novel seems like a bizarre little offshoot of Foucault’s Pendulum.
UMBERTO ECO
The author, Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
—John Berger
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
—Carl Sandburg
ny moment might be our last.
Everything is more beautiful because
we're doomed. You will never be
lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.
—Homer, The Iliad
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For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts
has held us together. It has made it possible
to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
―Barry López
P
oets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
―Kathy Skaggs
