For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. Votes: 13
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. Votes: 6
Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke. Votes: 5
I don't think I do have a soul. Votes: 3
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. Votes: 2
I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. Votes: 2
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. Votes: 1
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. Votes: 0
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore. Votes: 0
Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot. Votes: 0
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. Votes: 0
I started writing when I was about thirteen. Votes: 0