BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

Here, for a moment, we are joined.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

art is a mode of stalking

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity

We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.