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A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar
/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right to

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

Failure: the renewable resource.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.