Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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