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If your language lacks poetry and paradox, it’s unequal to the task of accounting for actuality. Otherwise anything radically new is literally unspeakable.

— Bob Black The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)

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As for "decadence," that is an eminently bourgeois swear-word for people perceived to be having more fun than you are.

Anarchy after Leftism (1997)

What I really want to see is work turned into play.

The Abolition of Work (1985)

There is life after the left. And there is anarchy after anarchism. Post-leftist anarchists are striking off in many directions. Some may find the way — better yet, the ways — to a free future.

Anarchy after Leftism (1997)

Do you have ideas, or do ideas have you?

Preface to The Right To Be Greedy (1983)

No one can say what would result from unleashing the creative power stultified by work. Anything can happen.

The Abolition of Work (1985)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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