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EVERYTHING

CHANGE SOMETHING CHANGE NOTHING CHANGE EVERYTHING CHANGE TWO THINGS CHANGE THE SAME THING

“Change something
Change nothing
Change everything
Change two things
Change the same thing”

Oliveros, Pauline. “A Poem for Change.” The Roots of the Moment. New York, NY: Drogue Press, 1998. p. 3.

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WorldCat

LIKE A DRY FLECK OF POLLEN TO GILD THE WOOD EVERYTHING IS STUCK TOGETHER WHEN THE GOLD HAS COME

"The binder for liquid bole is animal-skin glue. Almost honey. Without glue binder, bole won't stick to the icon board. And then there is the gold leaf, or flake, like a dry fleck of pollen, to gild the wood. Everything is stuck together when the gold has come. The flowers buzz when the vibration of the bees stimulates their pistons and their molecules swell and their petals hum like cellos. Rocks are alive too, the firstborn of the natural world, somber without will."

Howe, Fanny. The Child's Child. The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. p. 112.

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Gray Wolf Press

HERE I WISH YOU TO SEE EVERYTHING AND ENJOY EVERYTHING SLOWLY UNHURRIEDLY TO SOAK IN AS MUCH AS

“As for you, darling, though I wish you were here, I also wish you to see everything and enjoy everything slowly, unhurriedly, to soak in as much as possible.”

Reznikoff, Charles, and Milton Hindus. Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff, 1917-1976. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. p. 192.

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Poetry Foundation

SINYAHOW HEAR ME CHIO TO YOU FILL MY LUNGS JUST AS YOU DID FOR MY ANCESTORS GREAT-GRANDMOTHER

      - Line 17, Yeechesh Cha’alk, Alex Hunter and Eva Trujillo.

INORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES NOURISH EVERYTHING BUMPING DOWN UNDERGROUND RIVERS AS SPIDERWEBS

“We live within the nets of inorganic and biological processes that nourish everything, bumping down underground rivers or glinting as spiderwebs in the sky.”

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 154.

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BeWild ReWild

WHEN AIR HAS SPREAD THIN IN ORDER TO COVER EVERYTHING LEAVING THE POSSIBILITY THAT IN AFTERNOON

“This is what I call ‘it’.
It can be seen only in the morning when air
has spread thin
in order to cover everything

— leaving the possibility
that in afternoon there is a vulnerable spot
somewhere
which has not been covered.”

Scalapino, Leslie. “It.” O, and Other Poems. Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976. p. 8

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University of Pennsylvania

SACRED TIME OUT LIVE IN IT A MOMENT DOING EVERYTHING ALL SENSES INTO PLAY BE FLEXIBLE AND PLAYFUL

“cut sacred time out
live in it
a moment
doing everything
all senses
into play
be flexible
& playful”

Rothenberg, Jerome. “The Danube Waltz.” Vienna Blood & Other Poems. New York: J. Laughlin, 1980. p. 22.

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New Directions Books

NAMED IT BY LIVING IN IT BY REMINDING US THAT EVERYTHING IS CHARTED FROM THE SKY GREY FORMS MOVE


“it was she who named it
by living in it
& by reminding us
that everything is charted from the sky:
grey forms move over our heads
& force us down
& down”

Rothenberg, Jerome. “Notes for a New Wilderness.” Vienna Blood & Other Poems. New York: J. Laughlin, 1980. p. 16.

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New Directions Books

FOCUS ON THE SINGULARITY OF THE OBJECT THAT EVERYTHING SEEMS AT ONCE MARVELOUS STRANGE FAMILIAR

“This heightened perception is, of course, an aspect of the definition of art and commands a focus on the singularity of the object to such a degree that everything seems at once marvelous, strange, familiar and unexpected. No category can exhaust such an object; it saturates the perceiving subject.”

Rothenberg, Jerome, and Diane Rothenberg. Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983. p. 85.

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University of California Press

DEVELOPER ON ONE HAND WE WANT SOFTWARE TO DO EVERYTHING AND OUR DEFINITION OF EVERYTHING GROWS

“Two competing desiderata tug at either side of the software developer. On the one hand, we want software to do everything, and our definition of ‘everything’ grows broader every year.”

Puckette, Miller. "Max at Seventeen." Computer Music Journal 26, no. 4 (2002): p. 13. doi:10.1162/014892602320991356. 

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MIT

LISTENING IS LISTENING IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY TO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE THIS MEANS ONE HEARS ALL SOUNDS

“I call this way of experiencing sound ‘deep listening.’ Deep listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible—this means one hears all sounds, no matter what one is doing.”

Oliveros, Pauline. "Acoustic and Virtual Space as a Dynamic Element of Music." Leonardo Music Journal 5 (1995): 19-22. Accessed July 13, 2021. doi:10.2307/1513156. p. 19.

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Project Muse

PLEASANT FEELING TAKE A WALK IN THE COUNTRY EVERYTHING IS AS IT IS NATURE BIRDS SUN SOFT GRASS A VIEW

“The tension between appearance and reality melts away and both merge in one rather pleasant feeling.
(2) I take a walk in the country. Everything is as it should be: Nature at its best. Birds, sun, soft grass, a view through the trees of the mountains, nobody around, no radio, no smell of gasoline.”

Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. pp. 230-1.

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Routledge

PURPOSE HOW HEAVY THE SLOW WORLD IS WITH EVERYTHING PUT IN PLACE SOME MAN WALKS BY A CAR BESIDE

“Position is where you
put it, where it is,
did you, for example, that

large tank there, silvered,
with the white church along-
side, lift

all that, to what
purpose? How
heavy the slow

world is with
everything put
in place. Some

man walks by, a
car beside him on
the dropped

road, a leaf of
yellow color is
going to

fall.”

Creeley, Robert. “The Window.” Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. p. 97.

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University of California Press

KNOWLEDGE TO WEAVE OR MAKE FIRE IS LEARNED EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS CAUSED BY GENES OR EXPERIENCE

“But other knowledge, such as how to weave or make fire, is obviously learned postnatally.
Such contrasts have seemed to imply that everything we know is either caused by genes or caused by experience, where these categories are construed as exclusive and exhaustive.”

Churchland, Patricia Smith. "How Do Neurons Know?" Daedalus 133, no. 1 (2004): 42-50. Accessed June 30, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027895. p. 43.

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MIT

AND FIRE CANNOT BURN ITSELF FIRE CAN BURN EVERYTHING BUT FIRE CANNOT BURN FIRE FOR FIRE TO BE FIRE

“Yet fire cannot burn itself; it cannot exist in self-enclosure. Fire can burn everything that can be burned, but the one thing fire cannot burn is fire. For fire to be fire it must extend out of the enclosure of flame into the surrounding field, and only when its roots travel into its surround can it burn.”

Bryson, Norman. "The Gaze in the Expanded Field." In Vision and Visuality, edited by Hal Foster, 87-113. Dia Art Foundation: Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Number 2. Seattle: Dia Art Foundation and Bay Press, 1988. p. 99.

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Dia Art Foundation

BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS IN THE SAME PLACE AND EVERYTHING STAYS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THE NICKEL ALWAYS

“because youre always in the
same place and everything stays pretty much the same the
nickel always stays the nickel wealth is always wealth”

Antin, David. “Real Estate.” Tuning. New York: New Directions, 2001. p. 64.

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New Directions Books