“Everything is a question of sleep," says Cocteau, but he forgets the shark, which does not. Anxiety is vigilant.” — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“The sky was packed which by appearing endless seems inevitable. The flag droops straight down. The horse in dry sand walks with a chirping… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Long time lines trail behind every idea, object, person, pet, vehicle, and event.” — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Writing’s initial situation, its point of origin, is often characterized and always complicated by opposing impulses in the writer and by a seeming dilemma… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before,… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
