Paris, I Believe, Is A Man In

Sometimes, Because Of Its Immediacy, Television Produces A Kind Of Electronic Parable. Berlin, For Instance, On The Day The Wall Was Opened. Rostropovich Was Playing His Cello By The Wall That No Longer Cast A Shadow, And A Million East Berliners Were Thronging To The West To Shop With An Allowance Given Them By West German Banks! At That Moment The Whole World Saw How Materialism Had Lost Its Awesome Historic Power And Become A Shopping List.

When We Read A Story, We Inhabit It. The Covers Of The Book Are Like A Roof And Four Walls.

My Heart Born Naked Was Swaddled In Lullabies. Later Alone It Wore Poems For Clothes. Like A Shirt I Carried On My Back The Poetry I Had Read. So I Lived For Half A Century Until Wordlessly We Met. From My Shirt On The Back Of The Chair I Learn Tonight How Many Years Of Learning By Heart I Waited For You.

Paris, I Believe, Is A Man In His Twenties In Love With An Older Woman.

Photographs Bear Witness To A Human Choice Being Exercised In A Given Situation. A Photograph Is A Result Of The Photographer's Decision That It Is Worth Recording That This Particular Event Or This Particular Object Has Been Seen. If Everything That Existed Were Continually Being Photographed, Every Photograph Would Become Meaningless.