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“The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.”

Littles Art Remember Poetry Machines Poetry Is

Author:Don Paterson

“Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.”

Should Poetry Literature Speak Given Effects Machines Transparent Interfaces

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.”

Self Poetry Purpose Literature Language Challenges Roles Environment Reflection Machines Definitions Artistic Programming Introducing Self Reflection Programming Languages Multiplicity Coders

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.”

Writing Form Poetry Literature Lines Machines Increase Flight Planes Abstract Territory Consistency Covering

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

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“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”

Poetry Sound Poet Machines Critics Bees Sewing Bumble Bee

Author:Mason Cooley

“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.”

Ifs Writing Light Poetry Next Stuff Talking Poet Sitting Shadow Machines Albums Dry Songwriters Cleaners Soda Slot Machines Lyricists Des Moines Dry Cleaners

Author:Don Alias

“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”

Kind Mean States Poetry Machines Poetic

Author:Paul Verlaine

“Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.”

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