“Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.” WayKindSaidIdeasSometimesTalkingTechniquePoetry IsAssaultExpanding Book:Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries Source: Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries
“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?” KnowsSaidUsedEnemyOffersGainsHistoricalTerrorTechniqueAdministrationFantasticIronyTortureSuspectsConfessionMccainVietnamese Author:Andrew Sullivan
“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.” WritingWellsMeanDoeSaidMotivationalArtistOrderForgetBecomingMethodTechniqueGrammar Author:Andrei Tarkovsky