[b]Jonas Mekas
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.[/b]
In reality [he suspected] not a single one.
Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life.
Right, like they actually exist.
I read a lot. I listen a lot. I think a lot. But so little remains.
At least he’s doing it right.
Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.
In other words, our education not theirs.
Don’t we have enough ugliness already? And don’t we know these things already? Why always fight ugliness with ugliness, stupidity with stupidity, displaying still more and more of it?
And who hasn’t thought this? Not that anyone really knows what it means.
I do not understand, I never really understood, never really lived in the so-called real world. I lived… I live in my own imaginary world, which is as real as any other world, as real as the real worlds of all the other people around me.
He learned that from me. Or might as well have.