“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”
― Clive James, May Week Was in June

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarell

“…the beginning of a sentence and the end of a sentence are very powerful places to set a reader’s expectation, and then to surprise the reader’s expectation.” — Richard Powers, YouTube interview with David Perell

I stand beside my grave
Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary.”
― Randall Jarell

J. R. Wormington: Author, earthling