People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore …

- Lyn Hejinian

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

- Lyn Hejinian

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

- Lyn Hejinian

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

- Lyn Hejinian

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

- Lyn Hejinian

Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way me…

- Lyn Hejinian

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

- Lyn Hejinian

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, …

- Lyn Hejinian