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"The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority."
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"I've written you sixty-seven love poems.Here's another one for you.But really, for me.These poems are the candles that I light with the fire you have ignited in me.I place this candle here and another thereso even if the stars have argued with the moonand are sulking away in a corner, you can still find your way to me.Sixty-eight poems now. What does the future hold for us?Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect?I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more. For what is the point of loveif by lighting these candlesour own flame loses its brightness?I know the good is more than the bad. Much more.I cannot wait to write you sixty-nine."
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"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
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"In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc."
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"I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"Always be a poet, even in prose."
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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."
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"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
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"Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words..."
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"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
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"She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixednature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born."
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"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
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"Books, you know, they're not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art-the art of words."
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"I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids, he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go. He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned."
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"A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras."
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"He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it."
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"This was the way he had to go, he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer."
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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
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"The sleeper turns his back on everyone."
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