[D]enial is arguably the opposite of recognition    
In 1985 John Cage composed    
As for the wicked child    
To say or do    
I thought by twenty-seven I'd stop    
Does the season match the birdsong    
That's how the May light changed    
[W]hatever physical intimacy had opened up    
Good mathematicians see analogies    
[two statements on being real]    
[two statements on solitude]    
Gabriel Marcel says that the artist who labors    
Contact with others is what heals    
'A Thousand Thoughts', a thousand questions    
Days may be where we live    
Words say, Mispell and mispell your name    
In the cybersecurity world    
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth    
To read Heisenberg, Kant, or Borges    
A man undergoes pain    
This idea that time is not really wasted    
If I overdwell on this it can't be helped    
An unhappy reality has plagued my career    
Freedom in the use of symbols    
A friend of mine is a photographer    
A light, just now living    
Without clarity about what we need to make    
Breath is primary    
[E]pic diction has the same verb    
we used our words    
The original mistake in every sentence    
'The fault I find with our journalism'    
No neat conclusion    
To have in general    
Much of the ambiguity in talk    
The symbolic interpretation of prophecy    
A decade ago    
Allan Pettersson asked Leibowitz    
Quakers sit in silence    
Jacob shifted in the too-small wooden chair    
There's so much music    
Why do we like being Irish?    
As used in this subchapter    
Sure. But when you say    
I don't know where I / am either    
[two reflections on careers]    
The fetishism of the document    
'What you love in a person, Domna'    
In the past twenty years    
Chaffing and winnowing also bear some resemblance    
For Marxian humanism    
If the only people qualified to hold opnions    
Science is thought by some    
In this emergent period    
Anything that looks like an idea    
'The deep challenge of Piketty's work'    
Bloom's true scholarly and critical gifts    
[M]uch of the sexuality    
This is unlike any behavior    
Both the 'Meditations' of Marcus Aurelius    
A 'closed world' is    
Development systems are partial    
Mythology is not the same as myth    
Worked hard and feel happier    
The gifted theatre director Gordon Edelstein    
[Lucy Easthope]'s estimate is that populations    
A feminist server    
We like to think of our research    
Plato, in his famous fight    
[two problems of interpretation]    
They asked me whether I would talk    
It may already be September    
One former student    
Where has this cold come from?    
True attention allows potentialities    
To my craft I am attentive    
Thanks largely to the spread    
Music promotes rehearsals    
One of the tragedies    
It is evening when one hears most clearly    
To now realize that historical data    
Is this a real / encounter    
[F]or reasons I'll never know    
[Co-counseling] taught me that having a session    
Saul Bellow called distraction    
Two hands washing in the basin    
Before patterns are captured in writing    
We tend to understand our limitations and responsibilities    
What are days for?    
[A]nyone capable of transcending the eternal now    
A creative process is a philosophical search    
The chores that need doing    
read through earlier entries    
Our individual desire to witness results    
[Temple] Grandin likes the idea    
The knowledge gained by listening    
Weeks of debugging    
Each of Pflaumen's guests    
What [Jonah] Hill came to realize    
At one level the point is simple    
[P]eople just aren't meant    
[three statements on reading, writing, and freedom]    
I think training is mis-pitched    
Not the bell, I said    
[T]he money and the secret selection process    
To enter Babel    
Sometimes the land turns into words    
I've lived in three suicidal nation-states    
I am Kilamuwa    
Men go through life    
All I want is for someone    
Mozart concertos! Aged sixteen    
The nuns taught us    
But there's a falseness to setting innovation as goal    
We take so much of the universe on trust    
In my visions of fear    
[two transgressions against realism]    
The Great Invasion began sometime in the late 1990s    
[two statements on normality]    
Years before today's slideware    
[W]hatever else a liberal ethos    
[W]hen I stand back from [Stanley] Cavell's writings    
What concerns [P. F.] Strawson    
'There's this Robert Capa quote    
One manifestation of this generational imbalance    
To be alive and explore nature now    
The pattern of change and repetition    
How do you single out precisely which aspect of the Sabbath    
Symbolism is mind    
I wish I might write music    
I think there's a tendency    
[T]he task [of convincingly imitating    
(In transference, one always waits    
Much has been made of the fact that so many sixties radicals    
'I have never suffered greatly'    
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, the great theorist of industrialization, puts it thus    
[T]hought and deliberation require not just incubation space    
[an antinomy]    
At some point you have to stop thinking of yourself    
What about 'good' and 'bad', 'right' and 'wrong'    
There are moments in our lives    
It is not an understatement    
The job of a poet is to sit in the morning at a desk    
In thinking how my own view of training    
[two statements on commitment]    
There's an Etruscan word    
When I start buying clothes with generous hems    
In modern public law the value of policy    
From [1941] onward, [Patricia Highsmith] essentially maintained a double account of her life    
In a society so ideologically hostile    
Whatever pays you    
[A] philosopher [is]    
It turns out that budget constraints    
[P]eople can't, unhappily    
[T]hey recognized right away    
In all these [constructivist] views    
Back when ['Chapo Trap House']    
[Edward] Snowden said commercial malware    
[M]aybe that was all    
I am trying to learn    
In the narrative imagination of Israel    
For perspective, the forecast lows    
The idea of a 'culture industry'    
[two statements on attention]    
Say an idea is math    
There is nothing more interesting    
What most thought was    
This period is going to be a bit like a tsunami    
[M]aybe the bread    
In failing health    
[two encounters with religiousness]    
In e-mails and phone calls    
The human consciousness    
Being introverted has nothing    
I am organizing my solitude    
[two statements on being an artist]    
[two statements on fate]    
The body responds to extreme experiences    
Deep in fear and in suspicion    
[All] design is 'persuasive'    
[A]ny supply-side solution    
In central Kentucky    
Plato [...] was not engaging    
[S]ome/many of us live in the 'cliffhangers'    
[W]orking only for the rich    
[B]oth on the right and on the left    
It's important that we understand    
There's a Haida proverb    
You are never mentioned on Ararat    
In Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'    
This is precisely how 'religious liberty' works    
There is a very long game    
[Y]ou can take it away    
It is by this point a commonplace    
The materiality of the world    
Yes, I'm running as a socialist    
Those of us invested in love can choose    
It is worth remembering that [Jordan] Peterson    
What I know is that on the nights    
We have evidence that Alaska has changed    
That night, my sense of guilt    
[two comments on power]    
The political strategy behind ride-sharing lies    
What [Sam] Stephenson recognizes    
Monasteries are not as otherworldly    
For me the particular monstrousness    
It is not that the heroine is no longer    
These hearts-on-strings / of the tenderest green / things    
DreamHost's brief illustrates the key issues    
Can slave be used as a metaphor?    
The thing we share with these migrating peoples    
The horizon of our time is marked by the Fukushima event    
That we might walk out into the woods / together    
Complexity is the hidden door in the wall    
Mr. Comey has a history of leaving paper-trail traps    
Like [Roger] Scruton and most other old-school conservatives    
I believe that a truly 'good' family    
The judicial response to [Trump's] executive order    
[O]ften as you're finishing with one question    
It's a barren feeling to know    
The civil society organizations I've encountered here    
There's no question that civic engagement is a way    
[Some people] want to think    
'Trouble' is an interesting word    
alternative facts    
Since its founding in 1917    
In the ninety-minute debate    
The word is usually in a sentence    
[T]he dream of time travel [...] is just that    
America B didn't want to secede territorially    
Events in Germany in the last century have epitomized for us    
That [Nell] Zink trick—leaving you no safe place to stand    
Cities have always been cruel    
In a 1979 critique of Freud's 'On Narcissism'    
Late in his life, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith    
Universties are resilient creatures    
As [Benjamin] Noys points out, the first accelerationists    
In Silicon Valley, every company has an origin story    
What procrastination betrays is above all an anxiety    
For most people, the relevance of their moral obligations    
Universities imagine themselves as microcosms    
Some of the most exacting housekeepers I know    
When Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the term    
Such constellations offer us the canonical tension    
You are reading a different book.    
At some point, because of 'the biases that plague self-report measures'    
I would argue that most piercing lyric poets don't speak    
Unfinished, unable, distracted—    
It's good to be modern if you can stand it    
[two statements on reflexivity]    
1991-1999: Childhood is, imho, searching    
Fossil fuels require sacrifice zones    
According to Stevens, the conditions of reality    
Those who benefit from the death of privacy    
This place is a message...and part of a / system of messages    
We should be fighting for something better than the past    
Men are relatively terrible at social media    
Nor was I hungry    
The idea that we progress in a clear trajectory    
This is not to say that there is no setting    
I believe you write the book you want to read    
[Trump and his supporters] won't 'make America great again'    
At its core, 'rape' is a legal term    
The notion that someone can understand you    
The admonition not to pass judgement about the allegations    
To be male, gifted and white is to be as safe    
I know now that a studied evasiveness has its own limits    
It's easy to look at [the left] and say    
Suppose we imagine someone growing up    
Some psycho girlfriend of mine (decades ago!)    
By convincing us that we should be suspicious of our desire    
The inability to assess what [Occupy Wall Street] accomplished    
Once politics becomes your ethnic and moral identity    
What has struck me most, in reporting this [story]    
What's it like to know you're right/    
Sex is a pocket of life    
The course of a lawyer's career is often determined    
What was most attractive about microlending    
The 'New Yorker' has always dealt with experience    
Without attending to the varieties of constraint and unconsciousness    
Brilliant men make for good copy, even when they fail    
On a visit to Syracuse, I hear Toby saying goodbye    
Trust with the user is the heart of Apple's business model    
At a time when there couldn't be more at stake    
The world of information is more Gothic    
How much do we care, and should we care    
The recent pattern of campus conflict shows us    
In the beginning and in the end    
Tech criticism often stands in for more generalized complaints    
Elegant racism is invisible, supple, and enduring    
Or Paul Celan said that the poem was no different    
In Cold War America, homeownership was seen as a means    
[The Minerva Project]'s investment proposition is a bit like    
It is that desired transformation    
The archaeology of grief is not ordered    
I should admit to you up front that I am part of the problem    
This high companionship of self-indulgence    
if you can't bide your time, you're not equal to events    
[three comments on anxiety]    
There is an extremely bad undercurrent in this delicate line    
I'm sorry my stand-in mother was an evil replica    
We've never had this kind of experience    
Marjorie Perloff is a literary gatekeeper par excellence    
If you're a technological optimist    
We live in a time of shortsighted educational policies    
The Kopimashin creates an endless amount of copies    
[two comments on being careful what you wish for]    
[O]nly one man escaped [T. H.] White's revulsion    
If one of feminism's next big agenda items is emotional labor    
If you really want to be cynical right up to the end    
My point is not to suggest that Conrad should disavow his abiding passion    
Where, exactly, is the aporia here?    
In South Africa, there's an idea that has hovered    
I measure myself against / the sky    
I once feared buying a house    
Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity    
Define loneliness?    
We are still shocked by what has happened    
There is a benign underworld in American politics    
[This] generation, a whole lost segment of Syria's youth    
[O]ne must condemn the forces of anti-black oppression    
Always I have been afraid / of this moment    
[Ivo van Hove's production of 'Antigone'] has made it    
Who or what now treats any of us as citizens    
Rogue intensities roam the streets of the ordinary    
Nothing costs enough here    
To register that someone is saying something right    
[assertion v. evidence]    
Ever since activists from around the world    
Gossip is theology translated into experience    
For decades, the Sherpas addressed    
The programme 'Harmony of the Spheres' is centered    
[L]aw and order is only presumptively legitimate    
[T]he Roberts Court, having worked assiduously    
The 2016–17 Rice Seminar proposes to look at specific nodes    
Tor, like all other technocratic solutions    
We talk about open questions    
At Tony Oursler's retrospective    
I ask you: / what are poems for?    
If the only means of hoarding money    
Programs that encode binary data in ASCII    
One might have thought of sight    
It is an excess of caution that makes    
[two comments on subtle privilege]    
[A] big part [of the solution]    
[W]hile Dissent can measure vulnerability    
[T]here's no separating prototypes from values    
[two comments on judgment]    
He uncovered a nest of woody rhizomes    
Part of me is excited by the possibilities    
In bright late-winter sunlight    
Early August, and the young butternut is already    
[A] battle [is] under way for civilisation    
The D-Unit we knew had always been a hardware guy    
On a more biographical note    
If there's one thing I've learned    
Thoreau sought a decluttered life    
Many complain that the words of the wise    
What white people are really asking for    
The choice of a main programming language    
We have not even begun to research    
Deal with IEEE Std. 1003.1-1990    
I've heard that, back in the day    
Jokes are not always deployed in the service of racism and empire    
Heidegger's modified categories disclose a curious partial sphere    
By concentrating attention upon the investigation    
It was a splendid mind    
Sociologists since Weber have often noted    
The axes of your work    
How does a thought act?    
[W]hen you take an oath to tell the truth    
Phenomenology repudiates every philosophical 'renaissance'    
Do we 'actually communicate'?    
A particular method of symbolizing may be unimportant    
That she was not pretty she knew    
Another reason students resort to the quasi-medicalized terminology    
You may dissociate the elements of experience    
In spite of his skepticism    
The story and surface together sound both hokey and random    
At first blush, 'Gone Girl' is natural Fincherland    
In our exposition of the problem of worldhood    
Once there was a horse    
[T]he plaintiffs are mistaken    
[D]e Man's reading of the 'Essai'    
Orpheus never liked words    
The character Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood)    
There are only two requirements for an on-demand service economy    
The body is a formal constraint    
As the feminist psychiatrist Judith Herman puts it    
The complete penetrative grasp of a text    
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!    
'It is Aglaia! But the water should be brighter'    
Just above my diaphragm is a knot    
The notions of inferiority complex and masculinity complex    
In respect to geometry one recognizes    
Ridicule becomes less fun    
It may be that when we no longer know what to do    
[I]f the governments of developed countries want    
Everyone in Mexico knows about the normales rurales    
When democracy proves to be oppressive    
In 'Henry IV', it is the women who speak the truth    
In the future, we will have a pornography for every emotion    
On quite liberal grounds, one would expect the concept 'knows'    
This is a good place to make it clear    
One might object that subjectivists and internalists    
To identify sacred mystery within every individual experience    
[Waldo] Williams, who was a Quaker and pacifist    
Eric Garner was not the first American to be choked    
I left DM's cabin feeling as he seemed to feel    
The necessary thing is after all but this    
[N]o theory can be considered a good one    
The vocationalism, the urge to be professional early    
Like scientists, perhaps, music theorists    
[E]quating a poem with its text may arouse some protest    
Finding an idea—that is, distingushing it among several feelings    
Bi-election year 2014 was the final chapter    
Academism has emasculated the human disciplines    
[F]unctional dependencies in the formalism    
It's useful to think of Stanford students    
It is one of the turning points in therapy    
In the self-help model, you are your 'Youniverse'    
We must remember the state of things    
[Freud] refuses to concede that the ego lacks    
We wash up side by side / to find each other    
[T]he only relevant in way in which psychology    
All writers must master the craft of literature    
The statistical indistinguishability of causation    
[Twitter's] specific sucess may be symptomatic    
So long as linked with words, tones retain an embarrassing residue    
I think about you a lot, future person    
The humanities are all well and good, goes another argument    
Deductivists deem ampliative reasoning invalid    
The highest task of education is    
I've told you / that the middle of words are fixed    
Then I realized I hadn't secured the boat    
In the teeth of the forces that buffet them    
Put it this way, I give you, here, now    
another way to frighten yourself    
When do women in Ireland get to say 'no'?    
This poor nation is faced with the tasks    
Uprooting is a devastating blow    
An individual who lives in an oral culture    
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is so out of control    
Were I white or male of a higher class    
Lukács's claim, almost too famous to merit repeating    
However,—let Baudelaire and Joyce stand together    
Inside every 71-year-old is a 17-year-old    
Let's not kid ourselves: The college admissions game    
The former NSA director General Keith Alexander stated    
I suggest that we take the expression 'split reference'    
[Melissa Gira] Grant wants to go back to an older politics    
'Aidōs' ('shamefastness') is a sort of voltage of decorum    
You are not an image / and I cannot choose    
I told no one, but the snows came, anyway    
It has been a philosophic cliché since Heraklitos    
Sitting here, in this echoing vault of capitalism    
Historians of medicine have set up a difference    
[Elliot] Rodger's fantasies are so patently strange    
Though it is a tragic love story, it is also    
Citizens of our languages, we act as citizens do    
Let us set aside the pernicious creep of the phrase    
Then, a federal judge entered an order of contempt    
[T]here are, indeed, few things that are more frightening    
I doubt that we can ever step back all the way to nowhere    
How can one be a neoliberal while rejecting any position    
Structural violence does not manifest itself as force    
To make such universalizing claims    
I am a messenger sent to find / the genius    
I have personally compared FOSS to 'laissez-faire capitalism'    
When someone wanders so far from the flock    
Snow, in the light grayness after snowfall    
They said to him, 'Where is your wife Sarah?'    
What is the man searching for inside her blouse?    
I slept before a wall of books    
When trying to catch a horse it helps if you look away    
A night machine makes circles in the field    
A muscular, thick-pelted woodchuck, created in yield    
Can you genuinely claim these, and do they reclaim you    
It is not likely that a person who changes his pursuits    
I'm interested in regionalism's aesthetic and social capacities    
I've known grief. I don't / Take it lightly    
Talk about strange—in a haunted way    
[A]re we so predictable a creature    
A compound made up of 'nostos,' meaning 'journey'    
Some hot tea / tying the horses    
The rat traps emptied, the grain troughs filled.    
The Lord says, / I meant of it a blessing.    
Certain experiences enter our lives by nostalgia only    
Like a shout across a body of water, we cannot trace these echoes    
Aren't we enlarged / by the scale of what we're able    
Those who have insinuated that Menard devoted his life    
Counterintuitively perhaps, once these [surveillance] programs    
There are some themes, some subjects, too large    
Not because of victories / I sing    
A zoo is a place where as many species and varieties of animal    
Truth is not an imperative, but something that must be discovered    
I'm starting to think I have no soul    
Drop, drop—in our sleep, upon the heart    
Regarding the statutory arguments, there is another level    
A rung's / come broken in the / ladder    
[N]o matter how many Americans are murdered every year    
[T]hink of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number    
[two statements on the public intellectual]    
We must not portray you in king's robes    
The sped with which artists and critics and institutions    
Mae thought of his hands    
For an instant it was as if he, too, had heard the chord    
[N]othing is more serious    
The more important issue is the question of why    
You have the rest of your life to create the future    
There is a microdebate in cyberland about whether the gastronomy thing    
I'll do a song about nothing at all    
What attracts professors to students, then    
Nothing would be simpler than to class all these phenomena    
Looking out at the flat featureless land into which he seemed    
[W]hile the commons created by the Internet need not be bounded    
The Greeks believed that their cursed resided in a pit in the underworld    
Dr. John N. Constantino, a child psychiatrist and pediatrician    
[W]hat profoundly fascinated Benjamin from the beginning    
In the desert / I saw a creature    
There is a passage in the Mozart K. / 511 Rondo in A Minor    
The stone arm raising a stone hammer    
See, what you need to understand is that    
How do people use their psychic injuries and strengths    
Translation keeps putting the hallowed ground of languages    
[I]t is not the shutdown itself that threatens the unraveling    
The trees are in their autumn beauty    
Very often [...] ignorance of the way to learn    
Your absence has gone through me    
Leadership in every realm    
Because what I am transporting in my hands    
He made a line on the blackboard    
When does legitimate investigation become harassment?    
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three separate phenomena    
We have learned that in pursuit of its bureaucratic mission    
there has to be a kind of speech / beyond naming    
The new Snowden revelations are explosive    
In modern culture [mourning, melancholy, regret, and loneliness]    
Though God may no longer call us, this does not mean    
Perhaps we are permanently enraged, taking revenge on ourselves    
It is good, at certain hours of the day and night    
A person is, by his nature, out of touch    
When what we understand about / what we are    
If someone were to write Jan's biography    
The shad and asparagus are over    
He heard her in the entryway    
The hand within me that moves against me    
We can observe in this rhythm the essential ambiguity    
[I]t should be clear that unencrypted journalist-source communication    
What do you think of e-books?    
Email that uses standard Internet protocols cannot    
Ordinarily [the flag of the United States] should be displayed    
Today, rural citizens see themselves in an unappreciated    
[T]hough the idea of Silicon Valley does not allow for history    
In his 1976 book 'Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk'    
Montaigne presents antiquity as available only as a simulacrum    
Another friend of mine told me a story about the Apple bus    
Here are a few things theory knows today    
As if engine / parts could be / wrenched out    
I think we ought to stop being in denial about the foundations of modernity    
A red and yellow parrot sat in a tin cage    
Nothing is ever decided. He looks at her / in the morning light    
[W]riting well isn't merely a utilitarian skill    
Team Themis [...] was effectively brought in to find a way    
[T]he closer to real-time network communications are    
The hard question at the core of First National's suit    
In a hotel, even prayer feels adulterous    
Consider, then, the narrative daisy chain that makes up    
All of these waves crepitate from the culture of Ovid    
I don't know much about dream theory    
Some of you may find [my] words inexplicable    
[Jane and Sue] fall under the category of Hugh's guests    
When financiers say that they're doing God's work    
But what did Zdena mean by accusing [Mirek]    
I was packing away the file    
The original book is, of course, the world itself    
If Jesus had lived in my time    
In Chicago I learned that the weather made me    
We imagine asking 'Harper's', What about women?    
I object to such programs    
Two truths draw nearer each other    
Among the faculties of alcoholic men    
I confess I do not believe in time    
Symbolism is mind making connections    
Sometimes your whole life happens in [adolescence]    
When this day returns to me / I will value your heart    
Harvard, in its infinite wisdom    
Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems    
Call me to that one among your hours    
But you believe then in the existence of a paradise    
There's the one about the man who went into / A telephone booth    
It is said that a poet has died young in the breast    
It comes down to permission    
[W]hen [we] men grow hair on our faces it is an admission    
After experience taught me that all the ordinary / Surroundings    
[T]o those who ask 'why did God not create all men    
New technology has not released food preparation and consumption    
[E]ncryption is a lot cheaper than building a telco    
[T]elling you about my emotions    
In our culture, [...] strength is not enough    
My point is not that everything is bad    
The school may indeed exist for the purpose of adjusting    
[I]n every human mind, possibly from an extremely early age    
Universal declaration of rights of the howlers    
Socrates doubted that one is a human being by birth    
We need others to bring us back into the comity of human life    
I'm not interested in a Freudian reading of Shakespeare    
Kid poets are composed of either wet flopping emotion    
I have found, I believe, that our whole lives are dominated    
There is no rigorous and talented asceticism    
To put this question in a slightly different but a more helpful form    
Last week we went to a restaurant called Buck's    
[C]onsciousness may always be false if it is set in opposition    
After years of aborting female fetuses    
The darkness that lay beside me was / replaced all at once    
But do the Theory-trained characters of novels    
Valjean (Hugh Jackman) serves nineteen years for stealing a loaf    
It's the job of a media to tell the truth to its society    
James defined religion as the 'feelings, acts and experiences'    
What can be enunciated, what presumes that language    
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness    
Empathy could serve many of us    
The good news is the same as the bad news    
I for one kinda like the idea of social media humanizing    
Could it be that philosophical bright lines are more important    
At an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut    
[T]o be capable of embarrassment is the beginning    
Today's internet feudalism [...] is ad hoc and one-sided    
The general feature of human life that I want to evoke    
I now began to see the white surface of the paper    
[W]e are up against what truly seems like the obsolescence    
Mead and Hays, among others, have documented the tendency    
In his lifetime, he [Herbert Ashe] suffered from unreality    
[two statements on physics]    
There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell    
The basic function of language as a system of orienting behavior    
[T]he proper plight of dwelling does not lie merely    
Believing comes after / there were coverings    
Boredom, it seems to me, is a signal    
Imagine a body which waxes and wanes    
Memory believes before knowing remembers    
The problem is that men can be hurt    
Although one could argue that [the provocation of Turing's test]    
Here is a symbol in which / Many high tragic thoughts    
[B]eing on top of information all the time forecloses    
This host-parasite relationship engenders specific paradigms    
Clearly, people take pleasure in having control    
I wish to dispel the notion that women are 'more emotional'    
Hardly anyone apart from the botanist    
Why is it that in [young-adult] literature    
I believe in seeing ideas in the form    
A conviction that physical urges which one cannot help    
Consider, further, 1 = 0    
'Can this part be more chill, tempo-wise?'    
May I be made into the vessel of that which    
[two statements on language]    
A taxonomic wheel, useful for representing the capabilities    
How I knew it was coming— / that banana-fish smell    
The cats—calicos, tabbies, dirty white, gray    
Put it this way, lovey, some people / stab themselves    
Material compensation is not what I have in mind    
I believe in reading unsystematically    
[two statements on desire]    
What education is to the individual human being    
Remove the pot from the low fire to carry on the dialogue    
American exceptionalism [...] may inspire some people    
Said Myrtias (a Syrian student / in Alexandria    
The split of self from environment    
[W]hy our nature was given a propensity toward desires    
Last week I was at the 'New Yorker' panel on Wallace    
If I can start the day on my own terms    
So much of being male is about space    
Always when people tell you you will have to face this    
Metaphors are not arguments    
Once you know someone's story    
This is not magical realism    
The good-natured image of 'the writer on holiday'    
All I really want from a sidewalk    
And so it happened again, the daily miracle    
I'm also trying to make a point about the nature of protest    
All winter you felt nothing    
One doesn't have to operate with great malice    
The bird is not a higher form of imagination    
I'm trying to tell you something here    
I have discovered that most of / the beauties    
Credibility is a basic survival tool    
The eye does not see what I see    
Years and years ago, someone defined pornography    
Education should aim to enhance our capacities    
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished    
Venturing to the world: / the doctor's office    
While the main drive of Kant's arguments    
To name is to praise, said the girl    
And did you get what / you wanted    
Computer science should only be offered as a minor    
The next day it occurred to me    
If Mr. Assange is extradited to the United States    
He who postpones the hour of living rightly    
The time you spend is not your own    
We're at a unique time in the history    
[two statements on truth]    
Here's a news flash: There are some events    
I think, for one thing, that my love of birds    
[W]e're adolescent when it comes to art    
[three statements on building]    
They lay there on their bed    
I approach poetry as a control system    
Information systems need to have information    
When I consider the short duration of my life    
This isn't a call to stop writing stories    
Priest [As if confessing someone]    
The process of idling at the airport    
By close-ups of the things around us    
No moral terror can prevent the side    
[It] can be said that the cultivated spectator    
My ideal tech has all the implementation details hidden    
The leaves rusted in the late winds / of September    
If you sit quietly with a notebook    
Do you know how long it has been    
As if your handing fumbling to reach inside    
His friend displayed too much pleasure    
It grew at that slant / alone, down there    
By uprooting himself from the world    
Imagine a Carthage sown with salt    
V E I L,—as if silk that you in fury    
[The] effort to proclaim the grand homogeneity    
Boys have long been under pressure to shed    
A person has other concerns, but at each moment    
Once, changing vehicles beside some tennis courts    
There seems to be a specific manner in which man    
What kind of talking, then    
The duty of education is to cultivate and support    
If women do something like uptalk or vocal fry    
See, contrary to what seems like popular belief    
Combining Robert Morris' 'Box with the Sound'    
Glamour is constructed, elegance is acquired    
The unfortunate truth about behaviorism    
This little lecture pretends to something    
This is the other variety of significance    
Edmund was like that, a little    
'Cloud' is a crock of hooey buzzword    
The stories of Brown and Rangel tell us    
All git repositories are, in some sense, the same    
Silence itself—the things one declines to say    
There is a solitude like black mud!    
I have emphasized the fact that every integral experience    
He stands beneath me, beneath my weight    
Surely, in a way, woman is mysterious    
This notion that an author like Calloway    
Some ideas so obviously entail    
Striptease—or at least Parisian striptease    
The cross-hatching technique which allowed our ancestors    
[T]he two different arguments about the liberal arts    
[Inspiration] never points to what    
It can be said that the imagination consists    
The main things which seem to me important on their own account    
Inside of this elaborate memorial    
The gift of giving myself has been taken away    
Art isn't anecdote    
So what's the deal with the quotative 'like'?    
The prologues are over. It is a question, now    
I don't know how I can be any more clear here    
The Graces, seeking for themselves a shrine    
I started writing 'Beginners' five months after    
Darius, unlike the kings of Assyria or Babylon    
Don't put off your shower any more    
It is familiar language    
But you really must applaud the advertising    
This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education    
One should count each day    
One can see how oddly, yet effectively, the demotion    
That time I was in London, I went to an elegant dinner    
Instead of acknowledging that the Supreme Court    
I have thick socks and heavy shirts    
This is my network. // It is mine    
This is one of the many reasons why    
Wait, for now. / Distrust everything    
And once, when I rose / from your body    
You want to travel to Greece? You ask for a passport    
I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow    
Remember its pulse / on the salt-swollen porch    
We seem to have a peculiar urge to believe    
Knowing how to learn, and learning how to know    
Why are mysteries unpublishable?    
There is something so literal about video    
As I said, nature requires that the soul    
we who are / your closest friends    
My beards, attend / To the laughter of evil    
This is what we're saying: actions have consequences    
So what is good English? It's not as musical    
Look, as we promised each other    
Obama, though excited, was not yet prepared    
There was a wonderful embarrassment about it all    
The sociologist Max Weber, in his 1919 essay    
When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her    
My daughter was first sued in the womb    
It seems fiction is fine unless a subject is raw    
Say you hoped to / tame something    
Anything that remains abstract    
I once ran a workshop on applying to graduate schools    
As just about every self-help book advises    
Imagine you're given the task of censoring documents    
At one point, I was in an elevator with Newt Gingrich    
Today's grads enter a cultural climate that preaches    
The other great thing about last night    
Sometimes I don't even know    
He [Menashe] remains, in his own way, weighty    
What you speak of is not a currency    
I was giving birth to our son, and instead of holding    
A culture wise in love's ways would understand    
As you set out on the way to Ithaca    
Please! Try not too acquiesce too quickly    
If we claim that Islam, Christianity, Judaism    
In the 'Ghâyah', Maslamah similarly mentioned    
You should always write code that is slightly less tricky    
One 60-ish man, a former Fortune 500–company administrator    
[W]hen Proust felt passionate about somebody else's creation    
A great part of my work has been listening to people    
It is not only that we composers lack a place    
[T]he FBI withheld the identities    
By United Nations estimates, 215 million women worldwide    
I don't operate often. When I do / persons take note.    
This poet very seldom writes    
]I bid you sing / of Gongyla    
We no longer have a leadership class    
Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through / our cries    
[two statements on taste]    
That mention of Feuerbach and joy reminded me of something    
If it was treason it was so well handled    
Two girls discover / the secret of life    
We're supposed to smile at the passions of the young    
To be aware of the central role metaphors play    
Many calmly weighed rules entered Death's canon    
I have written letters that are failures    
Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road    
A few more might have survived the fall    
From the pickup, Lynsey saw a body outstretched next to our car    
Narus provides technology to governments    
A poem should be part of one's sense of life    
I meant nothing by The Lighthouse    
The reason, and by the reason he meant deductions from the observations    
The students in the Independent Project are remarkable    
That's one of the best known truths of economic history    
The Nader experiment, simple as it seems, requires science    
The problem with qualities is that they are about    
I have been here before    
You flowers, akin, finally, to those arranging hands    
This speech on the origin of mind    
Winters, when the snow covers everything    
In my view, our constitutional system placed such a limit on copyright    
A sudden blow; the great wings beating still    
We must surrender the tempting but unsound idea    
A medium has a niche    
Recent studies suggest that talk therapy may be as good as or better than drugs    
you can trust the computer    
Occasionally, you meet a young, rising member of [the Composure Class]    
The problem of representing novelty is in fact a formal problem    
Americans have never fully appreciated what a radical thing we did    
What needed to move    
He has been keeping meticulous records in his little book    
Small asteroids discovered with plenty of warning    
Humans were inevitably going to be part of the fossil record    
as is the sea marvelous / from god's / hands    
To hypothesize from a ridiculously tiny experimental base    
Having lived for forty-eight years on the East Coast    
When I was thirty I assumed that by the time I was fifty    
Among us there is not, and probably will never be again    
Keats was actively taken—almost physically seized    
Asked if he thought Mr. Bieber appreciated the work    
The last time I saw Law was a black night in September    
Apenas te he dejado    
The government's power to censor the press    
So I said I am Ezra    
I had a clock it woke all day    
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly    
It is possible to take too many notes    
Since I find you will no longer love    
IT security in 2020 will be less about protecting you    
After her husband died, Zita decided to get    
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry    
Shakespeare was an exceptional figure in this world    
There's been time this whole time    
[DeathSwitch.com] keeps tabs on users    
My lady, these eyes see vividly    
since feeling is first / who pays any attention    
My favorite time to write is in the late afternoon    
The cold remote islands / and the blue estuaries    
What of the neighborhood homes awash    
When elite universities boast that they teach their students    
Matter tells space how to curve    
[A] bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity    
It now lately sometimes seemed    
One of the central points of Franco's art and career    
The atopia of Socrates is linked to Eros    
The poetic, the scientific, the erotic    
Now live scorpions, on the other hand    
[Computer languages] evolve slowly    
Action creates / a taste / for itself    
A short history of airport security    
Sometimes the / green pasture / of the mind    
Oil is to Saudia Arabia    
Before I started [my walks]    
In class/ In life    
The desert has to lead us, at last    
Affection that will not be gainsayed    
I want to explain about the Catullus poem    
In experimental work, the primary function of statistics    
The term [échorcheurs—scorchers of the earth]    
Rue du Cherche-Midi, after a difficult evening    
... because / to be and to have meaning    
'Desire' is 'himeros'    
The society in which the Bedu live is tribal    
Desert is, literally, emptiness    
Gentlemen look on this curious creature    
Everything dies of being thought    
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace    
Poetry is a kind of lying    
Always for a me a poem is about tracking    
There will be nothing in the end    
It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies    
The lies in novels are not gratuitous    
Before I forget, while there is time    
The muse and the angel are external forces    
The problem with the way we communicate our emotions    
Learn to say no    
The psyche is a historically determined individual    
'Peace' in military mouths today is a synonym for 'war expected'    
There is nothing dramatic in the world    
Begin, though, not with a continent or a country or a house    
I could compare my music to a white light    
It is not easy for us to conceive how Guugu Yimithirr speakers    
There's a strangely popular subject of speculation    
The restless sea, the towering mountains, the silent desert    
Talking walks is the entry drug    
More and more people in the countries of the Western world    
So what are gay marriage’s opponents really defending    
If women are exchanged, in whatever sense we take the term    
There is never an answer to the great question    
In the broader intellectual sphere    
To see landscape thus, as something distant and foreign    
Despite the neutrality of geography as a science    
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma    
In addition to exposing less for the Web to forget    
If we want well-functioning communities    
The desire for friendship comes quickly    
I'm convinced that the best test of a man's feminism    
People often think that editors are there to read things    
But we, when moved by deep feeling, evaporate    
I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower    
In current descriptions of the world, the major industrial societies    
Since artists were created by God and generously endowed by him    
Locate I / love you some- / where in    
Last night such glad powerful dreams    
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength    
So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law    
The master said You must write what you see    
I've watched memory wound you    
It will take more human effort and time to keep the family cow    
A US Airways flight in Atlanta was delayed    
The trayn of regulated Thoughts is of two kinds    
This tendency to involuted abstraction is sometimes called 'Marijuana Thinking'    
Spontaneity is total sincerity    
The ant moves on his tiny Sephardic feet    
True liberal education requires that the student's whole life    
Recommendation engines aren't designed to give us what we want    
Pride, like humility, is destroyed    
The power to concentrate is a gift    
Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh?    
In short, this is not a movie about movies    
The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food    
To live each day as if it might be the last    
Netanyahu said the whole world is against us    
There are not many ways to pass music on to the future    
There is a shade of purple    
But a 25-year friend is not just 'a friend for 25 years'    
Would your typical piece of communication    
Parable.—Those thinkers in whom all stars move    
Thinking outside the box might be facilitated    
Recent analyses of inherent enjoyment in adults reveal an enjoyable state of 'flow'    
Modern television politics, we are usually told    
I keep on weeping for a past    
In a more expansive view, my sorrow and irritation stem almost entirely from the belief    
The best way to talk to Ternovskiy is through some kind of digital intermediary    
When I arrived in Montreal, Beethoven's violin concerto was on the radio    
I have a theory about data-base lookups    
Who was it that said it all in a homegrown tango    
[F]or most men, surprise parties    
Icebergs behoove the soul    
I still regret that / wasted night    
Before the invention of algebra    
There are nights that don't    
In the logic of economic development, land that feeds people is underemployed    
Candidate Obama attacked the Bush-Cheney national-security state    
Finish each day and be done with it    
Who loved not his sister's body but some concept of Compson honor    
Now. America is an interesting place because we do actually prefer    
God made forgetfulness    
This man I know once took me out on his sailboat    
Language belongs to the other, someone says    
The psyche is a strange unfunny place    
[I]dealism as it is commonly conceived    
When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains    
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul    
Paradoxically, the deeper I got into neuropsychology    
Sure on this shining night    
With a blue 'Tedstrong' bracelet around his wrist    
Yesterday I wanted to / speak of it    
One reason that Pepys found himself so entertaining    
The notion that digital books will transform civilization    
I am a part of all that I have met    
Where are the songs of spring?    
You know what happened, really and without irony?    
[improvisation:] something created    
Not everything can be about everything    
My phone tells me numbers    
Autoantonymy seems, in fact, to be the inherent tendency of words    
The problem with talking to someone    
There are those rare times in my life    
The desert has a deep personality    
There is nothing new under the sun    
DVD players don't make fake whirring noises    
Early morning lakes of fog    
[E]xpression cannot exist    
Myself ran a wire back through gelatinous time    
Of the books we do print—the books we make—they need rigor    
The tragedy of Gaza is that it is fast in danger of becoming a tolerated humanitarian crisis    
The human body is, to some extent, just a luxury cruise liner    
In that tenth winter of your exile    
Abramović and Ulay made art symbiotically for twelve nomadic years    
Happy the man, whose wish and care    
I have a friend who sometimes sends me lists    
The weaponization of classical music speaks volumes about the British elite's authoritarianism    
To whom much is given, much is expected    
If I can stop one heart from breaking    
The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions    
It has been pretended by some    
It's so much like you, I think    
The bodies of dancers with their kind of devotion are dual    
What I want happens    
The source of America's cynicism is not hard to find    
XV. Legend    
[Martha Graham,] parenthetical performances by    
All I'm saying about that line is    
That was the spring the bees disappeared    
What computerized analysis of all the country's school tests has done to education    
I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick'    
The greatest weakness of most humans    
What bothers me is that in terms of openness, the iPad is the same as the iPhone    
Nehring quotes Ortega y Gasset on the curiosity    
We are blessed here in America with vast natural resources    
For more than two years Nazia [Quazi]    
China's hackers subverted the access system Google put in place    
Auch das Schöne muß sterben!    
Destiny. My destiny!    
Our ability to take any pleasure, or even interest, in shows like ['Jersey Shore']    
We have nothing to hide    
One of the frustations of my life is dealing with institutional PR imbalances    
I am root, dammit    
There are many acts of destruction for which the Bush years are rightly reviled    
One lets things into one's midst    
The software industry has a concept known as 'legacy code'    
In Latin 'evolvere' means 'to unroll'    
If I said, 'I'm going to come by your house    
How many nights must it take / one such as me    
We procrastinate because we are afraid    
There's a pervasive belief in this society that perfection is possible    
If you haven't been sharing your work every day    
Once I believed in you    
Like many gifted bureaucrats, Hal's mother's adoptive brother Charles Tavis    
Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain    
In our silence, we were asking / those questions    
All night the sound had / come back again    
Do not go gentle into that good night    
Laor’s version of history is to be incensed that history should even have versions    
Weep, o mine eyes and cease not    
On these beaches    
In these days of collapsing boundaries and standards    
Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas    
Laws are passed, uniforms designed, theories float    
As a rule, I read and write poetry in bed    
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives    
Borges thought of all writing as translation    
I am about to recite a psalm that I know    
My best speculation is that Sontag was abroad    
The new group friendship, already vitiated itself, is cannibalizing our individual friendships    
Almost thirty years after the young Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga had engineered his prestige    
Come to me, said the world    
As 'Twilight' demonstrates, not everything girls like is good art    
Ah, love, this is fear    
I just want silence    
Where less is more, too little can be too much    
I plan to compose my own text in such a way that    
Experience is the only real teacher    
What real value, he wanted to know, was Google producing for society?    
Ah, that is the secret    
The United States of America could be less fastly fastly    
All gods who receive homage are cruel    
My friend, this body is made of camphor and gopherwood    
We asked the captain what course / of action he proposed    
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat    
But we, who have decided as a nation and by policy not to love farming    
The great paradox about music    
My overall reaction [to my rape] solidified into contempt    
[D]reams may be neither colored nor black and white    
Contrary to popular understanding—fueled by conservatives who are fond of caricaturing liberals    
When you're 19, you are permitted to find the Fountainhead inspiring and brilliant    
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate    
We watched the light sift through the air    
At a certain point tonight I swear to god    
Only one television station broadcasts from Gaza    
Music unfolds in time    
What we said was liturgy meant only for us    
It is not for David Brooks to tell me those IMs lack poetry    
The phenomenon of aggressive throat clearing in public settings    
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff    
Feed the lamp with oil and let it not dim    
However brief his ascendancy, the discredited prophet    
The dubious efficacy of the war on Fox News    
Persevere, do not only practice your art    
It turns out that social networks are actually terrible places to try and send a message en masse    
When you don't have stars in your eyes    
I have (this sounds like fantastic nonsense, but it isn't)    
Evangelizing environmentalists, much like evangelical Christians    
All the new thinking is about loss    
It is always a matter, my darling    
Any sufficiently overheated industry    
Authentic liberation—the process of humanization    
[R]esentment of an American president    
Dealing with failure is easy    
You can be a virgin in horror    
This isn't animal    
What scandalized the serious    
'Oh where ha'e ye been,    
Much of the sexual abuse    
Everyone suspects himself    
Hardly touching, I    
For men say always    
It was all    
She stood at    
suppose the body    
I know that    
I had a strange    
It is an exurbo-Republican    
[M]usic is what    
After this sustained    
That marvelous assurance    
We, in the ages    
Will there really    
Afterward it was dark    
earth creatures cattle    
Also the headache of    
In "Order out of Chaos"    
I know what you want    
Admiration—the aesthetic    
You tell stories    
Youth is not    
Complexity can be thought    
desire only that    
So how many bits    
Many have dreamed    
Defenceless under the night    
[The humanities] are thus    
The Modern period    
So, for those of you    
We are, each of us    
The history of ideas    
Let me jump    
The first question    
What would mercy    
The notion that our disposition    
Most of our heroes    
So there's this brief period    
didn't the night end    
There is a sacredness    
And all these images    
But incarnation is in    
With all that said    
That boring activities become    
Current younger generation    
Art is a form of exploration    
In the daylight    
Fashionability of product    
However, if it's difficult    
The things they carried    
With the old economics destroyed    
Kundera, a trained musician    
This sort of soaring rhetoric    
O magnum mysterium    
Is there a place    
Come / and let us talk    
The very technology    
Justification    
To allow our loved ones    
People we talk to inside Iran    
Before I die    
Our tragedy today    
This sentence, in a sudden    
It occurs to me, though    
But this rough magic    
President Obama, with a laudable respect    
[I]rony manifestly involves    
It's like 'Fight Club'    
I used to believe life got better    
Methought I heard a voice    
Living much out of doors    
Give to me the life    
Initial gut reaction    
In May 1974 [Joseph] Beuys flew    
In preparing for battle    
Practice is at once    
I think there's a real argument    
Tall ships, we loved you    
Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal    
Whatever happens    
To my old brown earth    
Otherwise this stone    
Music theorist Johannes Kepler    
Idleness, like kisses    
Today, like every other day    
Many factors help explain    
Earth will keep you tight    
The law locks up the man or woman    
Your life feels different on you    
New pyschiatric drugs    
Most of Paul's eccentricities were    
When I had no roof I made    
Learn, / as you stand    
Weep, O mine eyes    
But it is very important to keep    
Whitacre gets points    
Linus Torvalds, a Finn    
In the poem that cannot    
Unicode Snowman for You    
The evening hangs beneath the moon    
It is an art which does not seem    
Scary devil monastery    
The test of a first-rate intelligence    
The panther is like a leopard    
You scream, waking from a nightmare    
The difference between the almost right word    
To-day a rude brief recitative    
Batter my heart    
We try to make for ourselves    
The Lament is for all true women    
We all have reasons    
In 1945, the United States inherited    
The need for a new ordering    
The one who pours is wilder    
In so many photographs of the disenfranchised    
It was this dream of human perfectibility    
O dream how sweet    
When you consider something like death    
Food prices have risen    
Finally, Walt [Rostow] said    
Have you reckon'd a thousand    
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen    
The end of birth    
As I looked at the dead moth    
I taped a sign over the first sign    
We are not responsible for our unconscious    
In memory, we find the most complete    
And if you close your eyes    
We are now at a point    
All possible time, energy, and work    
A physicist is an atom's way    
[Benjamin Franklin's] editorial was accompanied    
Herr, lehre doch mich    
That odd capacity for destitution    
....... said / tasteless excess    
Ecco mormorar l'onde    
The Crystal Palace in London    
Broken gets fixed    
But the notion of the magnesium bomb    
For ye shall go out with joy    
My heart's in the Highlands    
The stabs in her heart    
The work of every great poet    
My heart an echo caught    
Night with the eyes    
Each note is a need    
How many loved your moments    
In our culture, though    
For the still small voice    
I have lost the consolation    
We can find beauty everywhere    
i saw the presidents hand    
Our challenges may be new    
Prove to me that chance    
I like a party    
Hear blessings dropping their blossoms    
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)    
We each come to literature    
As I walked along the river    
Lux, / calida gravisque    
But because I believe    
Act as if what you do    
De profundis    
I was in danger of degenerating    
Now I walk in beauty    
Those images of post-Katrina New Orleans    
Diphthong    
Wal-Mart is, after all    
War is an ugly thing    
Two teams of physicists    
During that killing season    
If humanity wishes    
Friend, tell me what to do    
I myself have never    
Yet I am I    
It is a profound and necessary truth    
how should tasting    
Speech is a clumsiness    
Artists will always make art    
Crucial / sounds or gestures    
It was clear to him    
Your children are not your children