“I never really got over the fun of making letters.”

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.

You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Destiny doesn’t exist. It’s God we need, and fast.

Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Ruthless ‘brave’ men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other.

It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

All the bickering may make the one step forward… TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly