The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 14

The greatest Americans 

have not been born yet.

They are waiting patiently 

for the past to die.

Please give blood

--- Saul Williams

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 13

You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory -- what the nerves and skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our “flooding.”

                                                                       --- Toni Morrison 




The wisdom floods from her words!!


Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 12

An idea is salvation by imagination

                                       ---  Frank Lloyd Wright


Which is why I keep thinking.  One day, I know it'll save me.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 11

"All men by nature desire to know."

                                              ----  Aristotle

Unfortunately, it's the things we don't know that manage to stay on our mind the most.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 10

Sad. Nothing more than sad. Let's not call it a tragedy; a broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

                                                                                       --- Angela Carter 


Amen to that.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 9

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.                                   - Robert Hughes, art critic

I embrace this, because I am doubtful.  Of myself, far more than everything else.  Not doubtful because I question my ability.  Doubtful, because I fear that I'll never know how to use it.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

(this quote was found while perusing a fabulous site, White Hot Truth, the brainchild of the brilliant Danielle LaPorte.  You should definitely go check it out!!)

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 8

"I'm about to drive in the ocean...I'ma try to swim from something

                     bigger than me....   kick off my shoes

                                       and swim good
                                       and swim good

                     take off this suit.......   and swim good.  and swim good.   good...."

                                                         ---  Frank Ocean, "Swim Good"



We all have a few things bigger than ourselves that we feel compelled to escape from.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 7

“People become successful when they’re helped by others. No one wants to help an asshole.”

                                                                   ---  Anonymous



Makes sense to me.  Let's not be assholes!!

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 6

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

                                      ---  Anton Chekhov

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 5

"It is of course precisely in such episodes of mental traveling that writers are known to do good work, sometimes even their best, solving formal problems, getting advice from Beyond, having hypnagogic adventures that with luck can be recovered later on."

                                                          ---  Thomas Pynchon


Perhaps my sleeplessness is good for my writing...lol.

Marcus Jamison, the Rare Poet

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 4

"A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with
    the English language, trying to get human feelings right."

                                  ---John K. Hutchens

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 3

"People say they're lost.  I'm not lost.  I just hate it here."

                               ---  from A Wild Heart Can't Be Broken

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 2

"I am everything, and I am nothing.  Understanding this fact, and embracing it, is the way I am allowed to continue."

                               the Rare Poet

(a post will soon follow, explaining this one)

The Occasional Crazy Rare Quote # 1

Is there a fine line between genius and mental illness?

....the line is so fine that I find myself crossing it, and forgetting which side I'm on

the Rare Poet