"The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle.
Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being."
Quote by Madeleine L'Engle.
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Syntactically, this quote is difficult to swallow. Reread it a few times. Slowly. I promise when the hard shell melts and you reach the jelly center of its meaning, your life will change.
I'll stop with the awkward metaphor.
That paradox above is what I want to achieve through my poetry. The intense war and marriage of the "flesh" and the "spirit," which exist in every human being [whether you recognize it or suppress it]. According to this paradox of light's ability to be both a particle and a wave, if God does exist, [s]he relinquishes as much control as [s]he exerts it.
Can't God be both omnipotent and helpless? Can't we be both rational and spiritual?
I'm not here to convince you of anything. Not about poetry. Not about God. Not about my mangy, unpopular ideas of poetry and God. I'm mostly here to admit--in a world crammed with people trying to be gods--that I am a human being. And nothing more. Well... a very curious human being.
I sound psychotically metaphysical. Off my rocker.
And I'm going to cut the "[s]" bullshit when I attribute a pronoun to the God figure.
The point is, as a budding poet, I've decided to journey into the center of everything. The center of what it is that makes us beg. Bruise. Love. What it is that makes the most cynical, rational, realistic people pray. Because we've all prayed--whether you want to admit that or not. And for the other half of you, we've also all masturbated.
Hopefully, I will make more sense as I figure out what to brainwash you with here.
Welcome to my website. Please let me take your coat. I hope you enjoy your stay.
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