You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.