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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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