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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf.
Speeches
Source: The Cost of Living
English note by the hand of the poet in the same paper sheet: Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
Ibid., p. 229
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Se um homem escreve bem só quando está bêbado dir-lhe-ei: embebede-se- E se ele me disser que o seu fígado sofre com isso, respondo: o que é o seu fígado? É uma coisa morta que vive enquanto você vive, e os poemas que escrever vivem sem enquanto.
