You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

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

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

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

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.