Quick Notes (1)

"Virtually every sentence that contains the word 'brand' is bullshit...."--Cory Doctorow, "The Memex Method" (https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2b46). This post prompted me to consider what I was reading and thinking about 10 years ago. 

Some notes in my commonplace book from May 2012:

- "History is Terror."--Mirceade Eliade
- "If you close your eyes / close them truly / and open yourself."--Radovan Ivsic, from "Mavena" [a Croatian writer; I don't recall where I read this]
- "The night goes back and forth inside the night / And the night holds its breath."--Randall Jarrell
- "Clausewitz, discussing hate as the necessary fuel of war, says it is always on supply, since foes undergo a Wechselwirkung, a back-and-forth remaking of each other, one hostile act prompting a response even more violent, in a continual ratcheting up."--"America's Nastiest Blood Feud," review of volume 4 of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/24/americas-nastiest-blood-feud/)
- "When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows low and silently farts."--Ethiopian proverb
- "Haiku . . . evoke the most world with the least language,"--Andrew Porter, Living in Spin
- Issa's haiku [probably translated by Robert Hass]--"no talent / and no sin / a winter's day"--reminds me of lines from Yeats: "If little planned is little sinned / But little need the grave distress."
- Inspired by Issa:
crow in the white oak
eyeing the empty field
as if he owned it 
Addendum
The poem is what has neither name, nor rest, nor place, nor dwelling: a fissure moving towards the work.--Jacques Garelli