Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve […]
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud, author
“Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.” John Baldessari, 1931-2020
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We live in a hell of opinions. Frank Bidart, poet, Pulitzer Prize for poetry
These days the buck stops nowhere No one takes the blame But evil is still evil In anybody’s name Don Henley, songwriter, quote from If Dirt Were Dollars Walkin’ like a millionaire Smilin’ like a king He leaned his shopping cart against the wall He said, “I been a lot of places And I seen […]
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. Clarice Lispector, writer
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Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian, diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright and poet
When a poem is really finished, you can’t change anything. You can’t move words around. You can’t say, ‘In other words, you mean.’ No, that’s not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it. W. S. Merwin, poet
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something – like electricity. […]
With Donald Trump’s election, I knew I could not remain silent. I in no way considered myself an activist. But in January 2017, just after the inauguration, I opened my computer and worked late into the night setting up a nonpartisan Facebook group for myself and a few like-minded friends. I wanted to create a […]
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