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“To love objects is to love life.”
“It's all I can do, he said, to hold onto life.”
“I have undone myself loving the shine on stones. Must I forget the mice in the ferns? Yes.”
“I'm set in one direction: toward the sun.”
“For I believe the spiritual combat to be more desperate in the center of chaos, which is Detroit.”
“The poem should provide that break, that vision into reality which relieves and makes alive.”
“A poetry of longing: not for escape, but for a greater reality.”
“We're not going to split the heart of reality: not until the third semester.”
“Why not hate everybody? he said. It's a good and sound philosophical position.”
“Use up the last light, love.”