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"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
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"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."
"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
"On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined."
"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
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