Praying To The Birds

Andrey Remnev

Pragmatic, materialist science hates intuition… Exactly because it’s untraceable… they can’t repeat it in a controlled experiment… And the fact that it is a frustratingly recurring aspect of the feminine — reading energy- often expressing itself beyond mere coincidence… makes it even more maddening…

— Donald Rainville

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If you practice writing constantly, you can start to speak in poetry form and so whenever you feel like writing something, all you have to do is immediately write what you’re thinking. John Ashbery says that poetry is like a stream that’s always running and whenever he wants to, he can dip into it and take a little ladleful and have a poem.

— Bernadette Mayer

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Organic images are destroyed if we subject them to linear thinking. How often we judge them as “bizarre” or “weird.” They need to be allowed to grow like plants in a spiraling movement…We may lose the sense of totality almost at once, but the psyche and body have experienced what wholeness is. They can then reconnect to that still point as to a tuning fork.

~ Marion Woodman

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I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their…