Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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