Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Anguish is the universal language.
Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.
While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".