Despair, When Not The Response To Absolute

Any Woman's Death Diminishes Me.

It Is Important To Possess A Short-term Pessimism And A Long-term Optimism.

A Life I Didn't Choose Chose Me: Even My Tools Are The Wrong Ones For What I Have To Do.

Can You Remember? When We Thought The Poets Taught How To Live?

[the Poet] Is Endowed To Speak For Those Who Do Not Have The Gift Of Language, Or To See For Those Who - For Whatever Reasons - Are Less Conscious Of What They Are Living Through. It Is As Though The Risks Of The Poet's Existence Can Be Put To Some Use Beyond Her Own Survival.