10 quotes found
Poet, essayist, professor
“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
“It is not what a poem says with its mouth, its what a poem does with its eyes.”
“It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.”
“It looks like its wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to ...”
“I have become an orchidwashed in on the salt white beach.Memory,what can I make of it nowthat might please you-this life, already wastedand still strewn with miracles?”
“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great imp...”
“A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.As soon as hed hit sixty hed hold his hand out the window,cupping it around the wind. Hed been assuredthis is exactly how a womans breast feels w...”
“Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Gal...”
“It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia t...”
“A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.As soon as he’d hit sixty he’d hold his hand out the window,cupping it around the wind. He’d been assuredthis is exactly how a woman’s breast fee...”
