I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
That's what poems are for, unlivable love.
What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.
I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i. e. , living without God, if consistently carried through, will have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense
There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!