...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.