He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time. " As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.
I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
