Time marks us while we are marking time.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

The soul has many motions, body one.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.

I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.