inspiration

nostalgia

is both the safest way to avoid the world and the safest way to be linked to the world.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art... and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art. (Randall Jarrell)

is rare --- a good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

is a being whose permanent condition is nostalgia.

Nostalgia is the permanent condition of man.

is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.