Martin Buber's I and Thou philosophy is based on a moment when Buber failed to say “Here I am” to one of his students.  Buber, the ...

The modern muse . . . will realize that everything in creation is not humanly beautiful , that the ugly exists beside the beautiful, the uns...

If the real world is not altogether rejected, it is but touched here and there, and into the places we have left empty we summon rhythm, bal...

Henry is very sure that something is happening, but he doesn't understand it at all. He watches things very, very carefully, because he...

Eden time They spent every day, blissfully ignorant, in amorous delay. Temp time Will I be alive when the twelve-heade...

Roast beef on whole wheat, please, With lettuce, mayonnaise and a center slice Of beefsteak tomato. The lettuce splayed, if you will, In a ...

     Then from the focus of enthusiasm I must discharge melody in all directions; I pursue it, capture it again passionately; I see it flyin...

In lyrical poetry, to be sure, we find numerous examples of a development suggesting a simple figure, a perceptible curve.  But the types ar...

I fell in love – that is the only expression I can think of – once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a litt...

If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, "Something wonderful ma...

Marx believed that revolution would change social relations. Instead we prefer a status quo that widens the opportunity for entry into it, b...

     [It is not] by absence of mind and dreaming that one can impose on speech such precious and rare arrangements.  The true condition of a...

If de Kooning says that what he really is interested in is Poussin; that's his way of not being bored with Kandinsky when all the world ...

Habit devours everything, objects, clothes, furniture, your wife and the fear of war. . . That which we call "art" exists in order...

I come here to live another life, connected to but not identical to my own. I read different books. I speak (not well) a different language....