Letters Are So Much Easier Than Living.

For To Be Desperate Is To Discover Strength. / We Die Of Comfort And By Conflict Live.

Poetry Is First Of All A Way Of Life And Only Secondarily A Way Of Writing.

When We Speak Of Being Vulnerable, It Suggests Being Especially Vulnerable To Pain. People For Whom Personal Dignity And Self-sufficiency Are Everything, Do All They Can To Shut It Out. Noli Mi Tangere. They Are Well Aware That Any Intimate Relationship Has Pain In It, Forces A Special Kind Of Awareness, Is Costly, And So They Try To Keep Themselves Unencumbered By Shutting Pain Out As Far As It Is Possible To Do So.

The Hardest Thing We Are Asked To Do In This World Is To Remain Aware Of Suffering, Suffering About Which We Can Do Nothing.

Solitude Is One Thing And Loneliness Is Another.