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'Quotations'

Doug Wheller (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

1.

Logic of properties,
hieroglyphics of logical
situations are, of necessity
true, although independent
of falsehood or truth.

Thus, in speaking the truth,
"A world is, as it were,
put together experimentally."

2.

At the very least, we
represent a relation. We are,
put this way, "On good ground."

3.

Once again
it all makes sense
except where we have not
given meaning
to what appears
to be a word.

"Even when we believe
we have done so."

To be ambiguous
would be to run on
forever. Simplicities
are enormously
complex. Consider
the sentence "I love
you."

It can be said
to be good without
knowing whether it
is false or true.

Columbia 1960

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Richard O. Moore was 90 years old when his collection Writing the Silences was published. that collection included the poem "Quotation." Moore was a poet, filmmaker, and seminal figure in public radio and television. Moore belonged to the San Francisco Renaissance literary circle of Kenneth Rexroth in the 1940s and 1950s, a precursor of the Beat poetry movement.

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