My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

People tend to take stories literally these days.

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.