"In Brazil, it goes like this: communists only read communist authors, (economic) liberals only read liberal authors and so on. Each one is afraid of tarnishing their little soul with sinful thoughts. In order for someone to speak with some propriety about the communist movement, they must have previously studied the following things:"

"If you want to argue with me, either you respect me, or hold your tears after I am done with you."

"Poetry, perhaps the finest of fine arts, certainly the shynest and most elusive? ,poetry which must have listeners, which cannot sing into a void."

"What is new poetry? The difference is not mere details of form, measure rhyme schemes or diction, but a return to contemporary speech, thought, imagination and spiritual life, coupled with oriental (Japan & China) and cosmopolitan influences ,and a direction of vision, with perfection of form and delicacy of feeling."

"Translators, again-the most abused and patient lot of folk on earth-are helpful in making us better acquainted; though we hope the time will soon come when citizens of the twenty-one republics will no longer need translators. There is no reason for our not speaking each other's language...We may recall also such friendly gestures as that of Harriet Monroe, who dedicated an entire number of her magazine, Poetry, to poets of Spanish America..."

"A book of poems should have almost as many dedications as titles for the poet must always sing for some friend whether the friend knows it or not"

"'Verse libertines' pioneered the work to get rid of obstacles between that which hampered the poet and separated him from his audience, less a matter of rules and formulae , more a return of spirit."

"All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this."

"The artist created; the owner possessed."

"To ourselves we are always being introduced."

"The world should be owned by the people living in it. Every person should be seen as living in a world truly his. All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs."

"When truth is divided, errors multiply."

"A person is separate from all other things and together with all other things. To understand opposites in a self, the meaning of together and separate must be seen (this meaning is like that of same and different)."

"No self can truly know itself and be ashamed."

"Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope."

"There is a deep and "dialectic" duality facing every human being, which can be put this way: How is he to be entirely himself, and yet be fair to that world which he does not see as himself?"

"An unsure person, when truth makes a point, is too often stabbed, not inspired."

"Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable."

"A pessimist is a person who finds an oyster in a pearl."

"Art is internal and external. The repose a person feels in aesthetic creation comes from his, for the time, feeling he is what he is and also what he is not. Ego and otherness don't fight for the while. The artist feels he has reached form in the deepest places of his personality, because things outside himself have been see courageously, truly, respectfully by him."

"Shadows...bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness."

"Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict."

"Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself."

"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."

"Wrongfully to be contemptuous of other human beings is inviting mental unhealth for oneself."

"So we are alone in our blood and bones and our thoughts. It seems we are separate if we want to feel that way. And yet we can look out."

"According to Aesthetic Realism, the greatest sin that a person can have is the desire for contempt. Because as soon as you have contempt, as soon as you don't want to see another person as having the fulness that you have, you can rob that person, hurt that person, kill that person."

"A friend is a person who takes care of himself by being friendly to you."

"There is a disposition in every person to think he will be for himself by making less of the outside world."

"Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger."

"In reality opposites are one; art shows this."

"ONE QUESTION I - Why?"

"Poetry, like life, states that the very self of a thing is its relations, its having-to-do-with other things. Whatever is in the world, whatever person, has meaning because it or he has to do with the whole universe: immeasurable and crowded reality. The technique of poetry aims for the intensification of a thing through showing the likeness of what is in that thing to something else--to everything else, as different."

"The quiet of this afternoon is strange, haunting, awful; Hear that buzzing in the hot grass, coming from live things; and those crows' cries from somewhere; There is a sluggish, sad brook near here, too. The bird is gone now, so graceful, fair as it was, And the sky has nothing but the brightness of air in it. The clean color of air. The sun makes it be afternoon here;..."

"Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual."

"If the sameness and difference of America were to become musical, it would be poetry."

"If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake."

"If you like yourself for the wrong reason, you will dislike yourself for the right reason."

"Every fact has music in it. The poet looks for it."

"Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary."

"“You must register your disagreement, must you Monsieur?” he said, in a level voice. “Consider it registered. Consider it simultaneously disregarded.”"

"Have you never seen human beings acting in a mob-frenzy? Have you never seen a religious rite that tipped people over the edge? Did you not see footage of the rock-and-roll music concerts they have in America?"

"“Are we in a dream?” Lebret asked. “Might we actually be dead and in some afterlife?” “How could we test either supposition?” the scientist asked, with characteristic practical-mindedness. “What conceivable experiment could we design to falsify such a claim?”"

"Let us not entirely abandon Occam’s Razor! The possible, no matter how unlikely, is always to be preferred to the impossible, however appealing."

"“I have heard the rumours,” said the captain, directing his attention to the food on his plate. “Ah, but rumours,” said Lebret easily, “may not be trusted. Appearances, you see, can trump reality.”"

"“The devils,” Billiard-Fannon wept, struggling upward. “They’re all about the ship! They want to break in! A cursed vessel, a haunted vessel...we must pray to God! Let us pray!” “I pray you to shut up,” grunted Capot."

"Money is not our concern. Our concern is the sea. The sea is not persuaded by bankers’ drafts and stocks of bullion; the sea respects nothing but the grit and willpower of dedicated seamen."

"By all means let us consult your needs! So long as they overlap precisely with my needs, I’m sure we can accommodate them."

"“Eva is perfectly content with her academic research,” said Diana. “She just isn’t interested in power. As I say those sentences,” she added, clasping her knees to her chest, “I can tell they’re both wrong. Aren’t they? Of course she’s interested in power.” “She’s a human being,” agreed Iago."

"But once we are free...once we have evolved beyond the old medieval power structures and the medieval internecine violence they create, then we’ll be able to use the technology responsibly. Everything depends on that."