The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.