Katie

“Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.”
― Guy Davenport, The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art

“I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.”
― James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room

“I'm becoming
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross.”
― Frank O'Hara

“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatters the English faculty like a truant officer among the Amish.”
― Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays