nin tonight

2025.09.08
Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.
Freud, via Anaïs Nin "The New Woman"

I should think it would be the easiest thing in life to write a poem about a couch. I never see a couch but my heart moves to poetry. The very buttons must be full of echoes.
DH Lawrence "The Married Man", via Anaïs Nin's review.

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.