The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images…

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.