Lars von Trier

Do you stop being a poet if you don't know where to end a line and where to begin one again, the new line or, once you've written the poem, are you always then a poet whether or not you know any longer where to begin and where to end a line?

"It is one of the peculiarities of the imagination that it is always at the end of an era. What happens is that it is always attaching itself to a new reality, and adhering to it." (Wallace Stevens, "The Necessary Angel," p 22.)

Of Aristotle, Jonathan Lear writes, "indeed his philosophy is an attempt to give the world back to creatures who desire to understand it." (Jonathan Lear, "Aristotle, the Desire to Understand," p. 8.)

When I think about these kinds of things, which I do more and more of the time, it's like I've sold a screenplay to Lars von Trier and he's agreed to make the movie of my life.