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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
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Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
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If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
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I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.
