"The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

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“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passÃ©. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.146, New Directions Publishing
“I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.”
“That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless theyâ€™d recently added a Tragedy line.”
“Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.”
“At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.”
“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.”
“The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.”

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