Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping. — 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
