Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience. . . that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step in. That is how government grows, and how freedom is diminished. . . . When financial meltdowns occur, the public's outrage drives government to take over part of the private sector. When the government does so, it replaces irresponsible executives with unaccountable bureaucrats. That takes us out of the frying pan and into the fire.
You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.