#pro

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. ↗

— Karl Barth

#christians #god #grafted #guests #house

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#books #culture #films #form #humiliated

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. ↗

— John Barton

#form #inquiry #into #nature #own

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. ↗

— William Bartram

#admirable #appeared #banks #bloom #contemplated

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. ↗

— William Bartram

#frontier #had #i #may #now

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken. ↗

— John Barton

#anything #arrive #deliver #disprove #end

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disappointing #least #man #promises #vote

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#communist #doctrines #fed #fed up #go

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#i #important #itself #like #made