Clotho

I am, therefore God exists.

Rene Descartes

All work with-out title, 1998-1999

by

Nicole Page-Smith

Inner architecture

In writing poetry one is always 

helped and even carried along by

the rhythm of external things; for

the lyrical cadence is that of nature:

of waters, of wind, of the night.

But to get rhythm into prose one

has to go down into oneself and find

the anonymous, multiple rhythm of

one's blood. Prose has to be built 

like a cathedral.

Rilke

An Unofficial Rilke

(translated by Michael Hamburger)

All works with-out title, 1995,

by

Nicole Page-Smith

In a letter dated January 7, 1996, from

Jerry Gorovoy

Dear Nicole Page-Smith,

Thank-you very much for your letter.

Sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner 

but I have been traveling constantly.

I am glad you enjoyed my lecture 

but more importantly the encounter with

Louise Bourgeois's work.

Its difficult to really discuss any work of art 

without having actually experienced it.

Nevertheless, I like the direction of 

the more organic configurations.

Ultimately, the only thing that really counts is 

your relationship to what you are making.

Sometimes the sense of isolation fuels the work 

in the right direction and who knows what the 

next body of work will be and who will react to it.

Just stay in touch with your own inner rhythm, 

your own form and sense of space.

I wish you the best.

Yours sincerely,

Jerry Gorovoy.

Perceivers of Light IV

Night. O face against my face

dissolved into deepness.

You my marvelling look's most immense

preponderance.

Night, in my gaze a spasm,

in yourself made so fast;

inexhaustible genesis, outlasting

earthly remains;

full of young planets that hurl

fire from the flight of their seams

into the soundless adventure

of the space between:

by your mere existence, exceeder,

how shall I grow-;

but at one with the darkened earth

I dare be in you.

Rilke

(October 1924, from the unfinished sequence Nights)

an unofficial Rilke

translated by Michael Hamburger

Untitled 1991

by

Nicole Page-Smith