For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”