14 quotes found
“To believe in moments makes life endless, no?”
“I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.”
“Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.”
“I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.”
“Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its own. You build a home for it and hope it can find itself at home among all the other words. Nestled...”
“I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe...”
“I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully saidthe reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.”
“Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.”
“If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myselfmaybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.”
“I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, a...”
“Every once in a while, and it happens only several times a year if I am lucky, I will feel astonishment that I exist, that I am sitting, standing, perceiving, and that others perceive me...It is pr...”
“I recommend the French beret, for it gives the impression of just the right soft toughness, a veritable wave of sophisticated brain matter. It is the kind of hat that inspires a person to grow into...”
“Being in the country is like being in a dreamone doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it allthat strange human creature that is me, one among all.”
“Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.”
