The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.
I have wished you something None of the others would.
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . . Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP
As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.
Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.
Long-term success depends upon trust.
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.