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Quote by Pauline Oliveros

“Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.”

Book:Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009

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Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009

This collection brings together a selection of the author's writings from 1992 to 2009, showcasing their intellectual journey and engagement with a range of subjects. more

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros, born on May 30, 1932, was an influential composer and musician from the United States. Her work spanned a wide range of genres, including electronic music, experimental music, and improvisation, and had a profound impact on contemporary music. more

“Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever”

Want Hands Mistake Forever Dying Somewhere Else Without You You Again

Book:Plus Shipping: Poems

Source: Plus Shipping: Poems

“All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.”

Ifs Children Stills Kids Actors Grows Natural Growing Up

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.”

Doe Has Beens Together Loss Space Violence Labor Torn Torn Apart

Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

“Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.”