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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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