Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.
Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.
When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.
I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.