Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.