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'You think you know everything in the world but you don't believe anything'

'A kind of an instantly gratifying data usually associated with drunken camaraderie not with art'

'the unsaid to me exerts a great power often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary' !!!!!

'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."