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Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ...

Life

I eat you, life; you make me living eat.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

A language is a map of our failures

The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

No moment is ever isolated With history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.

Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

100 Selected Poems

America takes her writers too seriously.

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

The wit taught by God to the bee Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass.

Rumi: Selected Poems

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Selected Essays, 1778-1830

I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

No one has yet tested the pencil To see how many words it can write

Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Less Than One: Selected Essays

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Richard Dawkins

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin

Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Kindness is in a prison till it finds Release in words or deeds.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

ABYSS Our country lives Among the dead And dies among the living Sometimes.

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.

Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems