If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate. Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Become vision itself.
If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.
You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e. g. , the poem "C. " I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.