To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
JOHN BERGERYour lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
More John Berger Quotes
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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