"Legal Fiction", line 9; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 37.
The Complete Poems
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
“The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.”
Proposition presumed from previous work.
The Method of Mechanical Theorems
Speech at the Annual 2018 NYC Cannabis Parade ( May 5, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T5P2bTXuss)
“Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 566
Context: A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah! what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves”
The Miracle of Mindfulness (1999)
Context: Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves—slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 28.
in "Who Discovered the Galaxy - Presidential Address – 1985" http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986JBAA...96..284C, Heather Couper, British Astron. Assoc. Journal V. 96, No. 5 (1986), p. 293, Bibliographic Code: 1986JBAA...96..284C
of the portion adjacent to the base
Proposition presumed from previous work.
The Method of Mechanical Theorems
"As It Was Written" from Last Poems
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)
