Quotes
tom fallon
I am a human being who creates with words. I do not "worship" myself as a human being, a personality, a celebrity, a creator, or a writer. I encourage a person to read my creations.
I encourage you to be yourself as created, an original individual human being.
I am an individual creative human being. I am not an organization person, a team player. I oppose the conformity of "the organization" - and the tribe.
I am a pregnant man. I am always pregnant.
I try to understand creation. I do not. I would like to communicate with a, the, creator of the creation.
I think I am connected to the creator through the creative source in myself as I act.
In wildness is
the
preservation
of the world,
Thoreau
said. In
wildness is
the
preservation
of literature.
Poetry is dead.
Writers
should
not
be imitators
of other
writers.
They
should be
creative
-
original.
Writers
should be
independent
thinkers.
I am a writer, a
creator with words - I am a
human being.
I am a poet and I am not a poet. I experiment with literary form. I prefer to call myself a word creator. Such experimenting with literary form expresses the spiritual and intellectual direction of the present age, which has been taking place for more than two hundred years.
I live in creation.
I am a poet and I am not a poet. I experiment with literary form. I prefer to call myself a word creator. Such experimenting with literary form expresses the spiritual and intellectual direction of the present age, which has been taking place for more than two hundred years.
I live in creation.
I create. I am a creator.
I create with words. I am a word creator.
I create with words. I am a word creator.
When I create, I die. I seek my death in creation. I live in the state of non-life, creating. I return to life with a creation, return to everyday life, exhausted, sometimes "destroyed". But I am free.
I
am irrational, and suicidal.
I am a creator.
The creation exists. I am created.
I am a creator. I know the creator. My source is from and in the creator as I exist at this time.
The force of creation is in me exploding.
I do not understand the creation. I understand the creation. And I do not understand the creation.
As a created thing, a created being, I fear death and I hate the death of the thing, the being, my self.
As a creator, I defy death.
Violence creates and violence destroys. In the universe, violence creates and violence destroys. Creation is wild and beautiful.
Creation fills nothingness. The act of creation excites nothingness.
I am a creator. I stand against the silence in the universe.
I am a creator. I know the creator. My source is from and in the creator as I exist at this time.
The force of creation is in me exploding.
I do not understand the creation. I understand the creation. And I do not understand the creation.
As a created thing, a created being, I fear death and I hate the death of the thing, the being, my self.
As a creator, I defy death.
Violence creates and violence destroys. In the universe, violence creates and violence destroys. Creation is wild and beautiful.
Creation fills nothingness. The act of creation excites nothingness.
I am a creator. I stand against the silence in the universe.
I am male and female. This is true.
I am a creator. The creator is male and female.
A garbage man is necessary for society. A writer is necessary for society.
As a human being, I was not very good at sexual intercourse. This is true.
I was not a good husband. I was boring. And I was too exciting.
I was not a good father. I was temperamental, impatient, too focused on creating, and suicidal. I do not state this with pride. I state it as a fact of life.
Now is creation.
I am in the center of creation: I am alive in the creative source.
A garbage man is necessary for society. A writer is necessary for society.
As a human being, I was not very good at sexual intercourse. This is true.
I was not a good husband. I was boring. And I was too exciting.
I was not a good father. I was temperamental, impatient, too focused on creating, and suicidal. I do not state this with pride. I state it as a fact of life.
Now is creation.
I am in the center of creation: I am alive in the creative source.
I create, I destroy, I am a human being.
I do not need any words to communicate with you.
I live to create: this makes me a poor human being. I am not a person that anyone with common sense would want to live with. I am destructive. I am self-destructive, and if that does not work, destructive of those around me. I am satisfied with this. And that is part of the problem.
I am not THE creator.
My day is an improvisation. In the beginning, after breakfast, I open my mind to explore for some point to stimulate word creation. I normally perform simple tasks, read, listen to music, watch tv, read previous notes or other writings, searching without a focus - I float - I love this float - I am in paradise - I float through the day hoping to find some thing to kick off a creation. I have no idea where I am going and I do not want to know - I am free floating, looking, looking, without control - I want to find something, anything, that will begin a creation.
You cannot know an art work in one encounter with the art work.
I am not aware of my existence in creation before my creation, my birth, into this existence. That has created questions in my mind. That has had me walking a tightrope without a safety net.
Where did I come from? How should I think? How should I live? Where will I go after death? were questions as valid for me as a five year old child as they are for me as a fifty year old. I am in creation.
Think.
I am a creator. Since I am a creator, I make the rules, break the rules, recreate the rules,. etc. I was born a creator breaking rules and defying rules as a child, questioning from the very beginning.
I am a human being. When I present judgements about writing to you, I wish you to understand that these are my personal judgements, that they relate to my own personal experience with writing.
Think for yourself if you wish to be a writer, question other writers, put them to the test of your own mind. Do not follow any other writers' direction without question.
A great writer sacrifices himself to his art. This is a rule.
My wife, who was not impressed with art, or my writing, considered me a human being, not an artist. She contributed very important changes to my thinking and feeling.
I support non-conformity by writers as it relates to any literary establishment.
I support the freedom of other writers even when they choose a different direction than I have chosen.
I am an ordinary human being who writes. I do not wish to be considered an icon relative to literature. I am the guy next door. I have birthdays and I will one day die as you will. I have favorite meals. And clothes. I sit on the toilet. I am a human being. Please remember that. I write. But I am a human being.
Question yourself - as well as others. Question yourself - do not let yourself off the hook because you will try to deceive yourself.
I have a Beagle dog. I consider her an equal to myself as a created being. She is talented as I am not and I am talented as she is not. We live well together.
I attend church services at a Catholic church as regularly as possible. I need to. If I had not done so, I would have committed suicide. The world has always been "too much with me." The creative person's sensitivity is a positive and a negative. Life, and death, is at the shoulder.
I pray.
I question God, for I think. Still, my questions: why do I exist? How should I think? How live? What will happen to me at my death? These return to me often as I contemplate life.
Cezanne was a Catholic and often attended Mass. Yes, Cezanne, the revolutionary. I do not compare my work to his.
Two quotations I value, relating to creation. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void." First in my mind, however, from Paul Klee, the Swiss painter, is: "Those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. Where the power-house of all time and space - call it brain or heart of creation - activates every function; who is the artist who would not dwell there?"
I trust women more than I trust men. Some women understand I do not always know what I am doing, but do not seek to humiliate me.
The first six years of my life I learned that human beings were not perfect, not reliable, deceived and lied to me about life, and that the darkness, the death of my mind, would one day be permanent. Reality, which I was seeing, was different from the reality that adults expressed to me.
I learned at a young age that I could not do everything adults told me I could if I only thought I could. I thought adults who told me this were wrong in their judgement because of my self-knowledge. I doubted much adults told me about life thereafter unless my test of reality proved them right.
I am as imperfect now as I was at six years old. I make mistakes in my thinking and in my actions.
I do not promote the fact I write to people who are not interested in writing.
I am very poor at self-promotion of my creative work. I am contemptuous of promotion because of the half-truths about the art and artist usually presented.
Do not praise me, Tom Fallon. Read what Tom Fallon creates. The creation matters.
Art is art.
I do not like to talk literary theory. Theory is after the fact of word creation.
I do not like to, nor should I have to, explain a word creation to anyone, if they say they are interested in literature.
I write as I do because it satisfies me to write that way. I question, I rebel, I invent, because that has been my nature since I was a small child.
Words are for communication. Creating with words, writing, literature, should be communicating.
Literature should communicate with human beings who are somewhat well educated and well educated.
I do not need any words to communicate with you.
I live to create: this makes me a poor human being. I am not a person that anyone with common sense would want to live with. I am destructive. I am self-destructive, and if that does not work, destructive of those around me. I am satisfied with this. And that is part of the problem.
I am not THE creator.
My day is an improvisation. In the beginning, after breakfast, I open my mind to explore for some point to stimulate word creation. I normally perform simple tasks, read, listen to music, watch tv, read previous notes or other writings, searching without a focus - I float - I love this float - I am in paradise - I float through the day hoping to find some thing to kick off a creation. I have no idea where I am going and I do not want to know - I am free floating, looking, looking, without control - I want to find something, anything, that will begin a creation.
You cannot know an art work in one encounter with the art work.
I am not aware of my existence in creation before my creation, my birth, into this existence. That has created questions in my mind. That has had me walking a tightrope without a safety net.
Where did I come from? How should I think? How should I live? Where will I go after death? were questions as valid for me as a five year old child as they are for me as a fifty year old. I am in creation.
Think.
I am a creator. Since I am a creator, I make the rules, break the rules, recreate the rules,. etc. I was born a creator breaking rules and defying rules as a child, questioning from the very beginning.
I am a human being. When I present judgements about writing to you, I wish you to understand that these are my personal judgements, that they relate to my own personal experience with writing.
Think for yourself if you wish to be a writer, question other writers, put them to the test of your own mind. Do not follow any other writers' direction without question.
A great writer sacrifices himself to his art. This is a rule.
My wife, who was not impressed with art, or my writing, considered me a human being, not an artist. She contributed very important changes to my thinking and feeling.
I support non-conformity by writers as it relates to any literary establishment.
I support the freedom of other writers even when they choose a different direction than I have chosen.
I am an ordinary human being who writes. I do not wish to be considered an icon relative to literature. I am the guy next door. I have birthdays and I will one day die as you will. I have favorite meals. And clothes. I sit on the toilet. I am a human being. Please remember that. I write. But I am a human being.
Question yourself - as well as others. Question yourself - do not let yourself off the hook because you will try to deceive yourself.
I have a Beagle dog. I consider her an equal to myself as a created being. She is talented as I am not and I am talented as she is not. We live well together.
I attend church services at a Catholic church as regularly as possible. I need to. If I had not done so, I would have committed suicide. The world has always been "too much with me." The creative person's sensitivity is a positive and a negative. Life, and death, is at the shoulder.
I pray.
I question God, for I think. Still, my questions: why do I exist? How should I think? How live? What will happen to me at my death? These return to me often as I contemplate life.
Cezanne was a Catholic and often attended Mass. Yes, Cezanne, the revolutionary. I do not compare my work to his.
Two quotations I value, relating to creation. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void." First in my mind, however, from Paul Klee, the Swiss painter, is: "Those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. Where the power-house of all time and space - call it brain or heart of creation - activates every function; who is the artist who would not dwell there?"
I trust women more than I trust men. Some women understand I do not always know what I am doing, but do not seek to humiliate me.
The first six years of my life I learned that human beings were not perfect, not reliable, deceived and lied to me about life, and that the darkness, the death of my mind, would one day be permanent. Reality, which I was seeing, was different from the reality that adults expressed to me.
I learned at a young age that I could not do everything adults told me I could if I only thought I could. I thought adults who told me this were wrong in their judgement because of my self-knowledge. I doubted much adults told me about life thereafter unless my test of reality proved them right.
I am as imperfect now as I was at six years old. I make mistakes in my thinking and in my actions.
I do not promote the fact I write to people who are not interested in writing.
I am very poor at self-promotion of my creative work. I am contemptuous of promotion because of the half-truths about the art and artist usually presented.
Do not praise me, Tom Fallon. Read what Tom Fallon creates. The creation matters.
Art is art.
I do not like to talk literary theory. Theory is after the fact of word creation.
I do not like to, nor should I have to, explain a word creation to anyone, if they say they are interested in literature.
I write as I do because it satisfies me to write that way. I question, I rebel, I invent, because that has been my nature since I was a small child.
Words are for communication. Creating with words, writing, literature, should be communicating.
Literature should communicate with human beings who are somewhat well educated and well educated.