Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.
quote by Donald E. Westlake
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Two-dimensional dream
If you called me 'two-dimensional', I guess
I'd go away and think about it - is he
insulting me and if so, how?
Though in a sense, all of us here in cyberspace
are two dimensional, to each other?
There's one time, though, when two dimensions
would be a blessing: like today,
when the cutely photographed brochure
for IKEA, the flat-pack furniture giant,
thudded through the letterbox
with its cosy nordic world as fresh and clean and scented
as a newly-built sauna just fired up;
then the two-dimensional me
could simply slip like a well-trained bookmark
between page 24 - 'a welcoming family room'
and page 25 - 'a bathroom to relax in'
with a pine-scented sigh of relief
that I wouldn't have to drive ten miles,
queue out of sight of the parking-lot just to get in,
then after checking what was out of stock,
go home and try to put the bloody thing together
despite the missing bolt.
You'll find me there on page 25,
under the artfully arranged bubbles, relaxing
in my carefree, blond and nordic way,
smiling the smug smile
of the sterile two-dimensional.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
quote by Chuck Jones
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I Am Tired Of Simple One- Dimensional Poems
I AM TIRED OF THE SIMPLE ONE- DIMENSIONAL POEMS
I am tired of the simple one- dimensional poems-
I want my irony back
And my contradictions and ambiguities-
I want the beauty back of a phrase which says more by itself
Than I initially intended it to have-
I want a way of writing which is a way of multiplying meanings
Not making them seem so simple singular and clear-
I want my Poetry back
But I fear I have lost it,
And it will in no way come back by itself soon.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Telling again and again
Telling again and again and
Again the same thing repeatedly
Is not bad rather it is good
Telling again and again and
Again the same story remind you
The mistake that turned you bad
And telling again and again and
Again the same thing you became
The master orator and we hear
You all words being consumers.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Karate Girl
I am the karate girl in town and,
I am seeking for your love;
For it is just a great joy to meet you and to know you.
I have been sleeping for four hundred years but now,
I am awake and to love you;
I am like the flying insects that walk on all fours,
And like two turtlrdoves and two young pigeons;
So stand straight on the doorway of love and,
Let me warm you up with my karate-movements.
I have a skin of milk to let you sleep all day,
And like the bull and the goat;
With the two-dimensional arrays of love to share,
For my act is all that you need tonight.
The source of my flow,
The nakedness of your law had exposed us!
And from the three-dimensional arrays of love,
But we are now like the sheep and the cow.
Twelve loaves of bread from the source of my milk,
And of the four-dimensional arrays of peace;
I asked for your name and you gave me your nakedness,
Because the highways were deserted as we walked along.
They've taken the spoil and the plunder,
We've taken our love and out emotions,
And like the sword without and the terror within!
But i am still the karate girl on the mission of love.
I am here to love you and,
I am filled with the spirit of wisdom to teach you;
For my trade is full of energy and of the movements,
But you will surely catch up to me on this love.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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A Quartet
PROTON-ENHANCED NUCLEAR INDUCTION SPECTROSCOPY
Famed pioneer of
N.M.R.in non-liquids
Alexander Pines
literarily known for
an engaging acronym.
LOFTY THOUGHTS
Pencilled crosshatching
parallel for strength and depth
fibre girded Art
the biomechanical
hydrostatic cylinder.
REALLY LOFTY THOUGHTS
Our measuring stick
four-dimensional spacetime
empirical rule
bluntly one-dimensional
yes-no, more-less, zero-one.
UNRELATED
A hatchling bonds with
a curious onlooker
duck and hound
recalcitrant chemistry
of contrary misplaced love.
poem by Diane Hine
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
aphorism by Vladimir Nabokov
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