“They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.”
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
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“I can testify to the fertility of the Word among the small and the humble.”
Catholics should become ‘lovers of the Word,' bishops’ synod says https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/14021/catholics-should-become-lovers-of-the-word-bishops-synod-says (9 October 2008)
“Shit can be used as fertilizer.”
Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt (Feral House, 2002)
Source: General systemantics, an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., 1975, p. 18. Cited in: Harvey J. Bertcher (1988) Staff development in human service organizations. p. 45
“Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.... it must fertilize the imagination.”
from: Taillandier, 1959; as quoted in Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 82, note 24
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Creation Myths (1972), Creation Renewed & Reversed
Context: In other words, the idea of the philosopher's stone of the alchemists is identical with the idea of the glorified body. This offers an archetypal approach to some Eastern ideas, because in different Eastern yoga practices and meditation the goal is to produce within oneself the so-called diamond body which is an immortal nucleus of the personality.
"In Ireland with Emily" from New Bats in Old Belfries.
Poetry
“If pauses can be pregnant, this one’s on the run from a fertility clinic.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 89)