For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.

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

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.