It is a mistake to conclude

It is a mistake to conclude that because the inflation precedes the reduction the inflation causes the reduction.

My fate

My fate is to miss my destiny.

There are times

There are times when a violation is an emancipation.

To survive (not escape!)

To survive (not escape!) a love denied, love something else, more fiercely, if not more desperately.

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Be free of the need

Be free of the need to worship either the presence or the lack.

Is it divine

Is it divine to divide?

How many poems

How many poems must I write before I become unassailable?

Forever relevant

Why does everyone I meet stay forever relevant? In this I may be most different from the contingent.

(And pity)

View with suspicion (and pity) the one who has not been lonely in a crowd or spent considerable time contented with his own company.

Gesturing

Go not where I have gone, but in the direction I am gesturing toward.

Who has not?

I have wasted my life, you say. But who has not wasted his life?

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Do not understand poetry too well

Do not understand poetry too well or it will turn into words and practices and be lost to you forever.

Preference

Give me any modernist over a hundred vague and yammering 21st-century poets!

On poetry

Poetry isn’t only about rhyme, meter, or imagery. It’s about how language arranges thought, perception, and affect in a compressive, resonant way.

Made to be

The temple was made to be desecrated.

Surely

The purpose of life, surely, is to provide a venue for dreams.

Not entirely

The set of the inoffensive is not entirely contiguous with the set of the unoffending.

It is impossible

It is impossible to not hate death unless you are dead.