The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.