Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.
There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
For a poet, style is the only morality.
Opinion is the death of knowledge.