“Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.”

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

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.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

I’m beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.

All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.