I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Islam is a dangerous religion.
Religion is an irrational construct.
That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been...
A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of ...
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was to...
She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretch...
Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn aw...
What is art? Nature concentrated.
To think is to be sick...
A family is a mystery.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
There's no such thing as morality.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
