"The reason we go to poetry is not……" — Jacques Lacan
"The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom"
More Dismantling Quotes
- One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge… — Hillary Clinton
- So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce… — John F. Kennedy
- Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids… — George W. Bush
- Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the… — Joseph Beuys
- I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. — Art Garfunkel
- St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were… — Thomas Keating
- This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our… — Unknown Author
- The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African.… — Chinweizu Ibekwe
- Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our… — Joan D. Chittister
- In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury… — Jean Baudrillard
- A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I… — Ai Weiwei
- By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct… — Manning Marable