Esther

“I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.”
― Michel Foucault

“Contemporary poetry is a regressive semiological system. Whereas myth aims at an ultrasignification, at the amplification of the first system, poetry, on the contrary, attempts to regain an infra-signification, a pre-semiological state of language; in short, it tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the meanings of things themselves.”
― Roland Barthes