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'i love lacunae and find oddly depressing that which seems to have left out nothing' !!! 'it lacks the power to seem whole and not final'

'for the writer thinking and writing (like thinking and feeling) are synonyms'

'to deal with the written word is to deal, at the conscious level, in the future. the reader lives there'

'as a reader, consequently as a writer, I am partial to most forms of voluntary silence [...] I love that which summons (as opposed to imposes) thought'

"The fundamental experience of the writer is helplessness [...] the only real exercise of will is negative: we have toward what we write the power of veto. [...] It is a life dignified, I think, by yearning, not made serene by sensations of achievement."

loved her essay on Stanley Kunitz. also loved "The Dreamer and the Watcher." great perspectives on myths and poetry - myth is not formula.