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"The barren desert that I was, I wanted to populate with words; I wanted to weave a veil of writing to hide the hollow sockets of my g...

And then there's Gary Snyder: "It is a perfectly simple, ordinary activity to be silent, to pay attention to your own consciousn...

Re-reading a book of interviews with Beat writers and poets, I realized many talk about breath and meditation and how it pertains to the wr...

"What technology really does is make our days seem to move too slowly, the nonstop flicker and flight of all our mechanisms stranding...

"Imagine the most likely use for the wired city of the future not in cyberpunk or megatripolising world music frameworks then but as ...