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- Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of…
- Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
- To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a…
- As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven
- It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from…
- As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a…
- My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to…
- I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled…
- The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell…
- But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
- From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
- Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
- We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
- The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
- Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted…
- …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the…
- It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense…
- My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing,…
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