The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.