...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 photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.