It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.
poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.