poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world
Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.