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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.

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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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