I Took My Writing Seriously, And It

Topologically, Men And Women Are Identical. Some Things Are Just Larger And More Developed In One Than The Other And Positioned Differently.

It's Only ... When We're Stripped Of Purpose That We Know Who We Are.

A Poet Is Wounded Into Speech, And He Examines These Wounds, Meticulously, To Discover How To Heal Them. The Bad Poet Harangues At The Pain And Yowls At The Weapons That Lacerate Him; The Great Poet Explores The Inflamed Lips Of Ruined Flesh With Ice-caked Fingers, Glittering And Precise; But Ultimately His Poem Is The Echoing, Dual Voice Reporting The Damages.

There Are Three Types Of Actions : Purposeful, Habitual, And Gratuitous. Characters , To Be Immediate And Apprehensible, Must Be Presented By All Three.

The Pleasures Of Love Are Really Quite Wonderful--though I Suspect They Are Rather A Luxury And Require A Certain Level Of Socioeconomic Stability To Be Anything Other Than A Mode Of Suffering.