a message from robert simon
“reverie is an exceedingly lovely work, its slowness repetitions
and unfolding.”
November 8, 2007
July 16, 2007
Saint-Just 1767-1793
Saint-Just: his name seems stolen from the Missal…
His chamois coat, the dandy’s vast cravate
knotted with pretentious negligence;
he carried his head like the Holy Sacrament.
He thought only the laconic fit to rule
the austerity of his hideous cardboard Sparta
“I must move with the stone footstep of the sun–
faction plagues the course of revolution,
as reptiles follow the dry bed of a torrent.
I am young and therefore close to nature.
Happiness is a new idea in Europe;
we bronzed liberty with the guillotine.
I’m still twenty, I’ve done badly, I’ll do better.”
He did, the scaffold, “Je sais ou je vais.”
Robert Lowell
May 27, 2007
September 18, 2006
May 29, 2006
May 18, 2006
May 12, 2006
March 15, 2006
February 22, 2006
some good advice
Stay away from irony and cynicism k
My pal
Stay close to beauty
L’utopie puerile de l’art pour l’art
robert simon
February 12, 2006
correspondence
To K: You don’t stay at the threshold of things. On the contrary, your spirit is deeply suffused with poetry and philosophy. It was closest to me in these images of uncomprehended truth. What you’ve thought I think: what I’ve thought you will think or have already thought. These are misunderstandings that only serve to confirm the greatest shared understanding. Every doctrine of the eternal Abyss belongs to all artists. I name you instead of all the others.
Friedrich Schlegel, 1800
Robert Simon, 22 november 2005
