I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

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

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

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

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition