Showing posts with label epigrams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epigrams. Show all posts

Epigram

We must fight stupidity with color.

One After Three After Racine

The fitness of an argument is its grimmer muscle.

One shouldn't come to argue for boundedness, as though for responsibility, unless to come for that laughter at stumbling over its tripwires.

Three After Racine

Honor, without honey, is a mere malady.

After honey is honor, and then malapropism.

Honor is too fit, yet sweet after the honey of an argument.

Conditions

If one can never concede the defeat of one's own knowledge, one can never be a humorist.

If one can never be a humorist, one can never be perfect.

...

"Momentarily."

That word breaks my heart.

On Revisionism: 3

As our case is not new
Let it ring false

To learn, in something like real time,
the exigencies of potential life.

Epigram to Preface a Collection, after Stevens.

Back to the minimum patriarch, a garble among hash marks.

Alive as anything.

On Revisionism: 2

Plagiarism is a moral disinclination. One declines to revert the career.

On Revisionism: 1

Between plagiarism and repetition, there is no substantial relation.