“A poet is someone who stands on the door sill and sees the room before her as a sea whose waves she might dive through. … A poet is someone who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention.” WritingPoetryLanguageInventionPoets Book:After Sappho Source: After Sappho
“…character goes underground before we are born, like the winding mass of roots that were weave down through the soil, anchoring an oak tree to this madly spinning planet.” WritingCharacterHistoryRootsConnections Book:After Sappho Source: After Sappho