"Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song."

-- Hilda Doolittle

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“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”
“When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [. . .] and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people”

Source : "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.
“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
“When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.”
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”
“If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.”
“Life eats life to live.”

Source : "Circling: 1978-1987". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, 1993.
“Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that MoliÃ¨re stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter.”

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