Mean Quotes

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.

It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

I’ll probably always love him. Doesn’t mean I can ever trust him again. That doesn’t make a relationship.

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.