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

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

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 to produce a golden rule.

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 the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.