Jose Garcia Villa Quotes

• “I shall talk to you through trees, through the arms of dancers, through sweet words uttered by many lovers.
  
  The arms of dancers round you shall be my arms.
  
  The eyes of men admiring you shall be my eyes.
  
  I have many arms, many eyes.
  
  It is that, loving you, I have become many lovers.”

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• “I,it,was,that,saw,
  God,dancing,on,phosphorescent,toes,
  Among,the,strawberries.
  
  It,could,have,been,moonlight,or,
  Daylight—or,no,light,at,all.
  His,feet,cast,light,on,all.
  
  On,phosphorescent,feet,
  On,phosphorescent,feet,He,danced,
  And,His,eyes,were,closed:
  
  He,made,the,strawberries,tremble!
  Yet,He,hurt,not,the,little,one,
  But,gave,them,ripeness,all.”

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• “A poem
  is
  language
  built
  
  to the
  struc-
  ture of a
  flower.”

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• “Between one and one
  Between integer and integer
  Is itself’s nothing
  The abstract zero.
  
  Between I and I
  Between self and self
  Is itself’s everything
  The abstract Hero
  
  That self may equate to
  Or keep ever as two.”

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• “Observe me, I do not speak.
  But I am very quick
  And already I have spoken.
  
  Observe me as now I speak.
  But I am very quick
  And already I have unspoken.”

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• “The way my ideas think me
  Is the way I unthink God.
  As in the name of heaven I make hell
  That is the way the Lord says me.
  
  And all is adventure and danger
  And I roll Him off cliffs and mountains
  But fast as I am to push Him off
  Fast am I to reach Him below.
  
  And it may be then His turn to push me off,
  I wait breathless for that terrible second:
  And if He push me not, I turn around in anger:
  “O art thou the God I would have!”
  
  Then He pushes me and I plunge down, down!
  And when He comes to help me up
  I put my arms around Him, saying, “Brother,
  Brother.” . . . This is the way we are.”

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• “Art is a miraculous flirtation with Nothing!
  Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.”

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• “Not,speech,that,has,fire,
  But,Fire,that,can,speak—
  Genius.”

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• “Nevermore to delay life
  End the beginning
  Devise the bravest perpendicular
  To the squarest circle.
  
  Assume the ending.
  If He lies broken who broke Him?
  Assume your innocence!
  
  If you are broken who broke you?
  Assume His innocence!
  
  The perpendicular of heaven and death!
  Now the wounded may rest.
  If He—on your breast.
  
  If you—on His brest.
  Rest, rest.”

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• “First, a poem must be magical,
  then musical as a sea-gull.”

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• “Sir, there’s a tower of fire in me
  Binding me with terrible strength
  The whole of my mortal length
  And splitting brave the skull’s empery
  In a rush of dauntless energy
  To reach the most luminous ether
  I am the mortal grounding of a tower
  Imminent with immortality.”

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• “Where are there square bubbles?”

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• “The,pages,of,a,mirror,
  Are,translucent.”

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• “I,astonish,Death,with,my,largesse.
  She,becomes,a,silly,maid,
  Saying, “Never,mind. Never,mind.”

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• “The,genius,is,not,greater,
  Than,its,radius,
  Which,defines,its,genius.
  
  The,tower,is,not,greater,
  Than,its,altitude,
  Which,defines,its,solitude.”

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• “Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant,
  Who bore the storms as he bore the sun,
  Wearing neither gown nor helmet,
  Though he was archbishop and soldier:
  Wore only his own flesh.
  
  ...
  
  Trace the tracelessness of the ant,
  Every ant has reached this perfection.
  As he comes, so he goes,
  Flowing as water flows,
  Essential but secret like a rose.”

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• “But since Christ is not easy
  (You must hunt him first among
  
  The white shadows of black birds
  With a mask upon your shoulder
  
  And a rose upon your eyes!)—”

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• “A radio made of seawater
  Will have mermaids for music:
  Who when me they will kiss
  All my senses will greet.”

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• “in blue wihout when blues dream bears
  the only living girls are gold
  quickly the living boys will bring them stars
  and stars will sing them bells
  
  in bells without when bells dream blooms
  the only living boys are brave
  quickly the living girls will bring them dooms
  and dooms will praise their love”

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• “With,simple,hands—
  Like,the,first,hands,of,Adam,
  Discovering,Eve.”

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• “An,Epigram,
  Is,an,epic,Weight,
  
  Concealed,
  In,a,gram’s,Space.”

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• “A,bee,flying,to,the,end,of,the,world,
  To,find,one,flower,wherein,to,lie,curled,
  
  Is,a,Fiction,is,a,lie,
  That,will,keep,God,in,the,sky.”

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• “I can no more hear Love’s
  Voice.”

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• “A matter of physics—Length and Tension—How does the performer make it sing above the laws of sound?”

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• “Skies,are,written,
  Because,skies,are,born.”

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