We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.