I Always Say That A Poet Loves

I Always Say That A Poet Loves The World, And The Prose Writer Needs To Create An Alternative World.

I Think We Fall In Love And Become Adults And Become Citizens In A Way By Writing Stories About Ourselves.

I'm Doomed To Act Like Myself, Even When It's Inconvenient!

It Turned Out To Be Impossible For Me To 'run Away' In The Sense Other American Teenagers Did. Any Movement At All Was Taken For Progress In My Family.

If You Live In The Dark A Long Time And The Sun Comes Out, You Do Not Cross Into It Whistling. There's An Initial Uprush Of Relief At First, Then-for Me, Anyway- A Profound Dislocation. My Old Assumptions About How The World Works Are Buried, Yet My New Ones Aren't Yet Operational.there's Been A Death Of Sorts, But Without A Few Days In Hell, No Resurrection Is Possible.