There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

I think continually of those who were truly great.

All that you can imagine you already know.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

There is a certain justice in criticism.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy!

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.