“I find it impossible to think of "favorite" poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.”
Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
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American poet 1941Related quotes
Pedro Pietri (1944–2004) Puerto Rican writer
On starting off in poetry (as quoted in the book “Race and the Modern Artist” https://books.google.com/books?id=4XY8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq)
Michael Hamburger (1924–2007) British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic
Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm
“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Marble Faun
Source: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XLI: Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights
“I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.”
Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
Juan Felipe Herrera (1948) American writer
We prefer “freedom”, we want to be as free as we can, but freedom and responsibility can go together. We’re responsible because we’re writers, and we’ve been at this all our lives…<br><br>On the poet having both responsibility and freedom in “Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera” https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/archives/online-archives/current-issue-4/features/interview-with-juan-felipe-herrera/ (Gulf Stream, 2015)
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Ur-Fascism (1995)
Context: Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes. Add to the Italian fascism a radical anti-capitalism (which never much fascinated Mussolini) and you have Ezra Pound. Add a cult of Celtic mythology and the Grail mysticism (completely alien to official fascism) and you have one of the most respected fascist gurus, Julius Evola... But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.
