In order to write all a man needs is paper and a pencil. Furthermore, when a thing has been written, it is written forever. When it is printed, nothing can stop it from being printed again and again if the thing wants to be printed again and again. I must therefore be a writer.

The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summo…

I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged f…

Merely to survive is to keep the hope greatness, accuracy, and the grace alive.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

Writing is not 'the establishment of a professional reputation' as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family…