Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the prese...nt; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveal...s that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I... am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it imposs...ible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not w...ho gives the care but the quality of that care,... The guilt trip is, in my view, a hangover of another era and of unacknowledged tactics to keep women in their proper place--at home full-time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were t...here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »