You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never….

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life..

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue..

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen..

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet..

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of….

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and s….

Desire is no light thing..

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall..

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to en….

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together..

There is no person without a world..

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing..

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg an….

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me..

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be….

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive..

Caught between the tongue and the taste..

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I….

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending t….

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt….