When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.