"I can't wait to see how Dan and I will look when we are older."

“I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.”

“When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.”

“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

Source : "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2004.

“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”

“Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.”

“It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.”

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

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

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 18, 2015