My head hasn’t been very clear these last few days. I suppose that’s why sunflowers made me think of heads. I wish mine could be as clean as they are. I was thinking on the train — if only there were some way to get your head cleaned and refinished. Just chop it off — well, maybe that would be a little violent. Just detach it and hand it over to some university hospital as if you were handing over a bundle of laundry. ‘Do this up for me, please,’ you’d say. And the rest of you would be quietly asleep for three or four days or a week while the hospital was busy cleaning your head and getting rid of the garbage. No tossing and no dreaming.
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View PlansAn empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Half of life’s problems disappear when one’s head is healthy.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
..for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..
Heads are useful ... And should be kept.
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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I have a room, which is in my brain, and it's very, very, very... untidy! There is stuff fallen everywhere. There are some very important ideas next to dome very silly ones. There is a bottle of wine that was opened five years ago, and there is a lunch I haven't eaten from last summer. There are faces of children who are going to die but don't have to. There's my fathers face telling me to tidy up my room. So that's what I'm doing - tidying my room.
It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
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