The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.