Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disgu….

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project..

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies..

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that c….

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis t….

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller..

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering i….

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew..

I never had much education in English poetry as such..

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were availa….

Lava bread makes you passionate..

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics..

Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money….

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, b….

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both phys….

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, cha….

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public..

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench..

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generall….

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song..