Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.
I hated childhood I hate adulthood And I love being alive.
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.
The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.
My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.