"Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness."

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Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

Kenneth Rexroth

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“If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.”
“As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.”
“So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.”
“Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.”

Source : "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007.
“The importance of gratitude is never forgotten.”
“We see in others what we want and what we fear.”
“Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.”
“It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.”

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