It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.