Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole….

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the langua….

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light..

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary..

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake..

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfe….

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing..

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence..

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation..

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do..

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling..

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope..

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you..

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains..

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generations….

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go..

When I desire you a part of me is gone..

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attemp….

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion..

I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the though….