My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.
“But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.”
“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”