I see people detained for simple INS violations.
Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
