We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew. ' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through a thousand documents. So there's lots of things that machines are better at including in mental task than us. There's many more that they're not as good at, but the direction is pretty obvious and the progress is clear.
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.