Robert Duncan

The patterns that arise from this motion are endlessly unique, yet bound together as a unified whole.

In the work of other poets and artists, for instance Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Cy Twombly, we encounter poetry and artworks as pictures of mind, layered histories woven out of diverse threads.

In their poetry and pictures, histories of observation and imagination are woven together and externalized in forms we can see and read.

as if past and future, history and imagination, are condensed into a vibrant present.

We are all atomic hybrids.

The most fanatical ideas of ethnic and religious difference arise in brains that share a common and universal atomic ancestry.

The American poet Robert Duncan, in The Venice Poem, written about 1948, writes, I am like an empty shell, tortured with voices.

Alone, I know not where I am.