One wants to be precise:

            clear in the stillness
      of the scene with the thought,
      of the thought with the image,

            sharp in the movement
      from the image to the feeling,
      from the feeling to the deed.

We see what's to be done.

I live in the moment. Unfortunately, on most days, memory and imagination stretches it thirty years into the past and thirty years into the future.

The War Effort

From 1942 to 1945, Charles Olson and W.V.O. Quine were both living and working in Washington, D.C.
Olson was writing propaganda; Quine was breaking codes.

Justice

This is just a sentence.

This is just
                     a poem.

A scientific discovery is always also the discovery of a new source of power.

The function of science is to discover truths, but the function of academia is to maintain ideology. Fortunately, an ideological system that does not allow the discovery of new truths is untenable.