Home » Quote » John Cage » „There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.“ „There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.“ — John Cage Related quotes „Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.“ — Fernando Pessoa „The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found—the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.“ — Allen Ginsberg „Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.“ — Robert Frost „We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things — metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „We are surrounded by poetry on all sides…“ — Vincent Van Gogh „The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.“ — Audre Lorde