We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.
Cynicism is a form of obedience.
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.
Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.
When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.
There is Life in every breath.
We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.
Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.