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

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

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

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.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

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.