Wyatt

“Jeffers writes out of enraged, disappointed romanticism: civilized in his expectations, he cannot forgive civilization in that it wasn’t worth his faith.”
― Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner

“There’s too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here. I hope you’re right. Trust me, Moss said. I hate hearin them words, the driver said. I always did. Have you ever said them? Yeah. I’ve said em. That’s how come I know what they’re worth.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Among the residual gifts of love is a composure, an openness to all experience, so profound it amounts to an acceptance of death. Or, more accurately, the future is no longer necessary. One is not rash, neither is one paralyzed by conservatism or hope. Simply, the sense of having lived, of having known one’s fate, is very strong. And that sensation tells us what it is to live without the restrictions of fear. Such moments, in a way, have nothing to teach; they can be neither contrived nor prolonged by will. What they establish is a standard. Not forever, but for once it was possible to refuse consolation, to refuse the blindfold.”
― Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner

“the poem, no matter how charged its content, will not survive on content but through voice.”
― Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry – Rigorous Literary Criticism on Poetics and Writing from a Nobel Prize Winner