For me being a poet is a job rather than an activity. I feel I have a function in society, neither more nor less meaningful than a...ny other simple job. I feel it is part of my work to make poetry more accessible to people who have had their rights withdrawn from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The automobile and the telephone are defeated as instruments of individualism by being applied to the needs of a mass society. The... automobile fulfills man's desire to move over the surface of the earth all by himself; but by becoming accessible to everybody, automobiles have paralyzed our streets. Individualism is possible only in plenty of empty space. Similarly, telephones block their own paths of individual communication when everybody is talking: the phone is too often "busy." Private enterprise cannot but strangle itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. ...Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effor...tlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him..., he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at wha...t seems to be a barbaric horde of scruffy girls and boys out to dismantle the structure of society. It is hard to see any virtue in it at all. What the grown-ups see in its stead is considerable evidence of pride, covetousness, anger, gluttony, envy, sloth, and a great deal of lust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that al...l walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Romance, as currently used, then denotes what is unreal or unlikely, or at all events not present, in contrast to what is scientif...ically true and accessible to the senses here and now. Or it is, in its purest expression, what partakes of the marvelous, the extreme, the unusual. That is why advertisement (in a grotesque and inflated form) is a pure expression of the romantic mind. Indeed, there is nothing so "romantic" as advertisement. Advertisement is the apotheosis of the marvelous and the unusual; likewise of the scientifically untrue. The spirit of advertisement can boost lives and has its feverish being in a world of hyperbolic suggestion; it is also the trance or dreamworld of the hypnotist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to cons...ciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this t...own, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics; and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts anywhere made to become acquainted with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »