About motorcycles---By Frederick Seidel (Harper's Magazine) →
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“There is an ascetic, Brancusi aesthetic in the simplicity of the perfection of these boats and the loveliness of their wood. They are violins.” About motorcycles, surely, but this quote about the “severe gorgeousness of these needles that go slow” perfectly captures the playfulness and love of life/things in Seidel’s prose and poetry.
