Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.