Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no...
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?
War is what happens when language fails.
…Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit reproduction in the face of dwindling resources. In other words - and up to a point...
Το νερό δεν αντιστέκεται. Το νερό ρέει. Όταν βυθίζεις το χέρι σου μέσα του, το μόνο που νιώθεις είν' ένα χάδι. Το νερό δεν είναι στέρεος τοίχος και δεν σε σταματάει. Όμως πηγαίνει όπου θέλει να πάει κ...
With shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,shivering in the parked car;though we know we had neverbeen there before,we knew we had been there before.
The reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I’ll be dead, you’ve said the word I, and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the...
Recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gen...
I)We are hard on each otherand call it honesty,choosing our jagged truthswith care and aiming them acrossthe neutral table.The things we say are true; it is our crooked aims, our choicesturn them crim...
At last you, will say(maybe without speaking)(there are mountains inside your skullgarden and chaos, oceanand hurricane; certaincorners of rooms, portraitsof great-grandmothers, curtainsof a particula...
And each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
A shocking 40 percent of the population in this region is jobless, with 50 percent of those being under twenty-five. That’s a recipe for systems breakdown, right there: for anarchy, for chaos, for the...
A few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like leather tongues.
[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connota...
You’re clear, Mr. Duke. Grins from both of them. What could Felix possibly be suspected of smuggling, a harmless old thespian like him? It’s the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That’...
You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions?
You read and read the material and after you’ve read the twentieth article you can’t make any sense out of it anymore, and then you start thinking about the number of books that are published in any g...
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just thrash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
You can think clearly only with your clothes on.