All love abhors habit.

“Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem …”

“The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is …”

“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at so…”

“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstra…”