The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.
— Keith Miller
roland barthes, a lover’s discourse
C.K. Williams, Poetry, September 2005
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
—William Carlos Williams
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
—T.S. Eliot
