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.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

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

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.