You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: poetry
Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
Samuel R. DelanyThe problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: ernest-newboy
He shrugged. Confusion was like struggling to find the proper way to sit inside his skin.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: dhalgren
This parched evening seasons the night with remembrances of rain.
Samuel R. DelanySometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: words word babel-17 samuel-r-delany
To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: life-experience
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.
Samuel R. DelanyDo you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.
Samuel R. DelanyTags: humorous prophecies context
The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through to the object without writerly distraction suffers the same contradiction as the concept of a painter painting a vivid and accurate scene with pigments transparent and devoid of color, including white and black—so that the paint will not get between us and the picture.
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