God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.
I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.
I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.
As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.
There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them.
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.
You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.
I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.