Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.