Thinking

"To tell the truth the artist doesn’t think, if by ‘thinking’ we mean the elaboration of a chain of concepts. In him thought is born from contact with the matter which it forms, like something auxiliary, like the demands of matter itself, like the requirement of a form in the process of being born. Truth is less important to the artist than that his work should succeed, that it should come to life. My ‘thoughts’ were formed together with my work, they gnawed their way perversely and tenaciously into a world which gradually revealed itself."

-- Witold Gombrowicz, in "A Kind of Testament"

Bodacious

1. If the Loch Ness Monster were to do a lap dance...

2. If Federer were to win the French...

3. If the King of Sardinia were sardonic...

4. If "Wolf Blitzer" were the name of a real person...

5. If poetry were truth.

Emu

"Its song ranges from a boom to a kerplink
reminiscent of the worst excesses of Conlon Nancarrow."

-- from "The Bangle", by Paul Muldoon