top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."
Standard
Customized
More
"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough."
Life
"So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations."
Poetry
"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events."
Love
"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."
Experience
"But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history."
History
"Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear."
Will
"If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done."
Language
"I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort."
Effort
bottom of page