Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.