“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”
“Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.”
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
“You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.”
“Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.”
“I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma”