The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by s...pitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, withou...t spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whose denizens can turn upon the world With spitting tongue, an odor, talon, claw,... To sting or soil benevolence, alien As our clumsy traps, our random scatter of shot. She swept to the kitchen. Turning on the tap, She washed and washed the pity from her hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »