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