Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.