Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

All good poems are victories over something.

Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.