Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
experience poetry silence
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
nature
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
speech
Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
tso-art
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
confession fish philosophy
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
poetry the-other writing
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
poetry
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
criticism deconstruction language poetry
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
imagination literary-theory literature
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
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