Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Remains
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor – the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression – these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
I’m a writer who simply can’t know what I’m writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I’ve lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.