I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

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

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

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.