Glimpse

George Murray

Description

Glimpse is a book of 409 aphorisms, a form that straddles the line between poetry and philosophy, yet is likely more accessible to the general public than either. Each tiny, crafted piece is not simply a distilled poem or a pre- poem or a poem explained, but rather a crystallized poetic essence - an attempt at getting closer to, and preserving, the poetic moment or epiphany by capturing the first thoughts generated during the impulse to speak rather than the thought long held and worked and shaped.

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Ecw Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554909810
• Langue: English

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SELECTED APHORISMS

GEORGE MURRAY

ECW Press

Copyright © George Murray,2010

Published by ECW Press 2120Queen Street East, Suite200, Toronto, Ontario, Canadam4e 1e2 416.694.3348 /[e-mail]

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW Press.

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Murray, George,1971- Glimpse : selected aphorisms / George Murray.

isbn 978-1-55022-981-3

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ps8576.u6814g55 2010 c811'.6 c2010-901252-6

Editor for the press: Michael Holmes / a misFit book Cover design: David Gee Text design: Tania Craan Printing: Coach House1 2 3 4 5

The publication ofGlimpse: Selected Aphorismshas been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested$20.1million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, by the Ontario Arts Council, by the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, by the OMDC Book Fund, an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. —André Gide,Le Traité du Narcisse

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. —Theodor W. Adorno,Minima Moralia

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There is no way to forget any moment, except in its sequence.

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As with the knife, the longer the conversation, the less frequently it comes to a point.

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Do not discount the stupid bravery of the first to arrive.

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The butterfly’s wings are nothing to the overwhelming force of the common.

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Knowledge is what happens when you rob suspicion of doubt.

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One should always arrive before a tribunal naked, wearing only the first few words of the truth, or the last of a good lie.

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Until you’ve seen some sign of your prey, you’re not hunting, you’re walking.

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Mathematics is what happens to life when you shed the emergent complications of consciousness.

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Those who have time to tell stories in the dying moments of our attention are also those who will be forgotten.

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Rubble becomes ruin when the tourists arrive.