"Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see."
"The poet's job is to pay attention, then to pay attention to what they've paid attention to."
The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The essence of poverty is that tomorrow’s uncertainties devour today’s possibilities.