Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

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

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition