I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a feudal order: the aristocratic dispensation of leisure time, the refinements of the self. With the shift from fe...
The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revolution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which,...
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has no...
The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establish...
Rare and powerful harmonies exist, Shaping both scent and contour in a flower. Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until, Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond. And thus do images of fleeting vision, Drifting above like cloud-forms in the sky, O...
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most ...
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
I like films to be complete in their written form.
The truth will form and fall apart again.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Failure too is a form of death.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.
Each of us is a spirit in material form.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
I love being creative in all forms.
