but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built

There is light somewhere.

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.