Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
“Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.”
“It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.”