Security Is The Denial Of Life

War Is The Admission Of Defeat In The Face Of Conflicting Interests: By War The Issue Is Left To Chance, And The Tacit Assumption That The Best Man Will Win Is Not At All Justified. It Might Equally Be Argued That The Worst, The Most Unscrupulous Man Will Win, Although History Will Continue The Absurd Game By Finding Him After All The Best Man.

Poetry Exists Partly To Undermine The Certainties Of An Accepted Intellectual System, By Opening A Fissure Of Awareness At Which The Reality Of The Unconquered World May Enter.

I Do Think That Women Could Make Politics Irrelevant; By A Kind Of Spontaneous Cooperative Action The Like Of Which We Have Never Seen; Which Is So Far From People’s Ideas Of State Structure Or Viable Social Structure That It Seems To Them Like Total Anarchy — When What It Really Is, Is Very Subtle Forms Of Interrelation That Do Not Follow Some Heirarchal Pattern Which Is Fundamentally Patriarchal. The Opposite To Patriarchy Is Not Matriarchy But Fraternity, Yet I Think It’s Women Who Are Going To Have To Break This Spiral Of Power And Find The Trick Of Cooperation.

Probably The Only Place Where A Man Can Feel Really Secure Is In A Maximum Security Prison, Except For The Imminent Threat Of Release.

The Goal Was 'every Child A Wanted Child'; It Should Also Have Been 'every Abortion A Wanted Abortion', But The Two Sides Of The Phony Debate Were Never To Meet.