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 telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

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

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.