Jarrett Siler > Jarrett's Quotes

“...the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.”
― Richard Rorty

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”
― Richard Rorty