In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.