hyperliteracy

A writer is someone who is not sure he wants to be alive and writes to keeps whatever aliveness he has alive in such a way as to make the reader feel like living instead of like dying.

Most poems can't begin to hold a candle to the sound of a baby crying.

Someone reads hoping to see and to hear something of what he thinks is his real life made more vivid, more real than the life he thinks he is living.

It would be comforting to know that the past is satisfied with us, is happy to have been the past, that the future may be welcoming, and the present is represented by two lovers walking through an ancient corridor in Athens, Greece, but that wouldn't be the way a writer writes or a reader reads.