Language poetry

• "Shadows add depth / by falling" - Armantrout, "Single Most"
• "Two people in a room, both of / them me" - Benson, "Blue Book 42"
• "At first we loved because / we startled one another" & "the bouquet you made of / doorknobs, long nails for / their stems sometimes / bring happiness" - Armantrout, "Tone"
• "Each sentence bent toward the sun." - Silliman, "Tjanting"
• "That is, in prose you start with the world / and find the words to match; in poetry you start / with the words and find the world in them." - "Dysraphism," from All the Whiskey in Heaven by Charles Bernstein
• if definite proof emerges that we're living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be /So what/. A life lived in a simulation is still a life." - sea of tranquility, emily st john mandel
• in those streets everyone moved faster than me, but what they didn't know was that I had already moved too fast, too far, and wished to travel no further. I've been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush." - sea of tranquility