Distracted from distraction by distraction

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he i…”

“Yet when we came back, from the hyacinth garden,Yours arms full, and your hair …”

“Son of man,You cannot say, or guess, for you know onlyA heap of broken images,”

“That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discre…”