I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.