The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.