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    R. M. Rilke, Blood-Remembering

    “Ah! but verses amount to so little when one writes them young. One ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, and a…… Read more “R. M. Rilke, Blood-Remembering”

    February 7, 2021 by Kate Gough

    The Ever-Processing Machine

    I can’t find my incense. I don’t want to write. I desperately want nothing more than to write. For ever. So then, perhaps I’m just a stymied…… Read more “The Ever-Processing Machine”

    May 13, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    ‘If the Furies Should Take…’

    ‘It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet. Before I get all rapturous and carried away here, I had…… Read more “‘If the Furies Should Take…’”

    July 4, 2015February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Comma

    “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”… Read more "Comma"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Cloudy

    c. Mary Kathryn Gough Portrait Black and White Film not sure, 100 or maybe 400

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    May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 by Kate Gough

    Waterfall

    self portrait. Instagram c. Mary Kathryn Gough

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    May 7, 2014August 1, 2014 by Kate Gough

    Idiolalia Poetry Collection Now Available!

    Hello all 🙂 Thank you all so much for your support. Idiolalia is available straight from the printer now at 3 GBP or 5 USD each (or…… Read more “Idiolalia Poetry Collection Now Available!”

    May 10, 2013December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Phenomenological Movement Journal

    Katie Huffman / PHIL 340 / Halteman Journal # 1.5 (date?) ; Response to the Phonomenological Movement Several Quotations I reacted to very strongly: “When epistemological inquiry…… Read more “Phenomenological Movement Journal”

    July 23, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    .:Nereid:.

    .:Nereid:. (Rhode, long lost, reaches open Ocean) rocks, roaring on the rough-beaten coast and i, atop the highest possible point — gazing down. a low, roiling roll…… Read more “.:Nereid:.”

    February 17, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    cummings on love

    this is one of my favorite poems about love. there are more, but this one always comes to mind, and it makes me happy. last thursday was…… Read more “cummings on love”

    January 11, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Ideas/Dried Roses

    Tragedy, do you understand? the Tragedy of ideas pinned up like roses on the corkboard of Reason — concepts crucified, the souls contained within run out like…… Read more “Ideas/Dried Roses”

    January 5, 2012January 5, 2012 by Kate Gough

    language ii

    the trees are speaking a new language today. a tongue i’ve never heard. it’s white and brilliant, sparkling in the wind with infectious energy; a million tiny…… Read more “language ii”

    December 14, 2011December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Literature’s Unifying Force

    Mary Kathryn Gough 11/11/05 Project #2 The Unifying Force of Kafka’s Literature: Drawing a Dual-Hearted World Together in Unity of Spirit “Could not then art and literature…… Read more “Literature’s Unifying Force”

    November 28, 2011December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Art, Culture, & the Autonomous, Free Humanity of Man

    1Art, Culture, and the Autonomous, Free Humanity of Man; The Universal Applicability of Living in Truth and Accepting Responsibility as Destiny The essence of the conflict… is…… Read more “Art, Culture, & the Autonomous, Free Humanity of Man”

    November 17, 2011July 14, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Liquid Language

    two o’clock in the morning, dull and grey outside with the soft sound of (hundreds of thousands of) millions of raindrops springing out of the air and…… Read more “Liquid Language”

    November 11, 2011February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

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    Idiolalia ~
    n. (id-ee-oh-LAY-lee-uh) – use of a private or invented language.

    Ultracrepidarian ~
    n. (ull-trah-crepp-ih-DARE-ee-un) – an ignorant or presumptuous critic; one who gives opinions beyond his knowledge.

    (L. phrase ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole,” reply of Greek painter Apelles to a cobbler.)

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