Poetry Has Been The Longest Pleasure Of

Nothing Creates Such Untruth In You As The Wish To Please.

In The Circle Where I Was Raised, I Knew Of No One Knowledgeable In The Visual Arts, No One Who Regularly Attended Musical Performances, And Only Two Adults Other Than My Teachers Who Spoke Without Embarrassment Of Poetry And Literature — Both Of These Being Women. As Far As I Can Recall, I Never Heard A Man Refer To A Good Or A Great Book. I Knew No One Who Had Mastered, Or Even Studied, Another Language From Choice. And Our Articulate, Conscious Life Proceeded Without Acknowledgement Of The Preceding Civilisations Which Had Produced It.

Madness Might Sometimes Give Access To A Kind Of Knowledge. But Was Not A Guarantee.

At First, There Is Something You Expect Of Life. Later, There Is What Life Expects Of You. By The Time You Realize These Are The Same, It Can Be Too Late For Expectations. What We Are Being, Not What We Are To Be. They Are The Same Thing.

Marriage Is Like Democracy - It Doesn't Really Work, But It's All We've Been Able To Come Up With.