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.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. 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.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.