“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“I'm only interested in poetry.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
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Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter
1950's <br class="br">Source: Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93.; reprinted as 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119 <br class="br">Context: I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!
“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
Richard Yates (1926–1992) Novelist, short story writer
“I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138
“Poetry can be criticized only through poetry.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
“Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #117
Context: Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
