“So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.”
“I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for....”
“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
“So many people are full of talk, Maddie. But nothing happens unless someone steps up and takes action.”
“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
“Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.”