Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. BrownHistory is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
Norman O. BrownI perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
Norman O. BrownPsychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
Norman O. Brown