Charles: The human race isn’t very much.
Interviewer: Have you felt like that all along?
Charles: They haven’t improved; I haven’t noticed any change. In one of my poems, there is a line that says: “Humanity… you never had it from the beginning.” I see no reason to alter that line at this moment.
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You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski 2016
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter 2011
We sometimes attribute ideas to singular individuals, while ideas are continued conversations in time. Ideas are more collective than we think; they do not belong to just one person.
The individual is given more credit in modern times—not just as a person but also as a persona, a character that best represents an idea.
Yet behind the process of something—a product, a building, a business, a political system, even art—it is collective work, not just the fruit of a singular person. An individual may spark ideas, but they take form when shared and when a collective works on them.
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Ulysses' Gaze 1995
For those of us who want to love a country but find it impossible, who desire to feel at home but are pushed out, for those of us who, in an attempt to search for answers, find that the politics of the past, the wars, the lost arts, or manipulated history make it more difficult, for us who seek answers but can’t find them anywhere.
A great historical movie about the Balkans, alongside a personal story, showing how the individual…Translated from by
