Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

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

I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

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