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“The worst that can be said of a man is that he did not pay attention.”
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“Life is some kind of loathsome hag who is forever threatening to turn beautiful”
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“The worst that could be said of any man was that he did not pay attention”
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“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are "trying to tell us/... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.”
― Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
― Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
“This is the slyness of art: If you tell enough lies, you’re bound to say something true. —The Paris Review, Issue 95, Spring 1985”
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“What would you call his feeling for the words
That keep him rich and orphaned and beloved?”
― Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
That keep him rich and orphaned and beloved?”
― Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
