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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

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Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Poet

Born: March 31st, 1914

Died: April 19th, 1998

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