literature

I need to reach beyond interior decoration, biography. Art is a way of melting out through one's skin. "What, who is this about?" is not the essential question. A poem is not about; it is out of and to. Passionate language in movement. The deep structure is always musical, and physical -- as breath, as pulse

To claim that literature on its own is going to change reality would be an act of madness or arrogance. It seems to me no less foolish to deny that it can aid in making this change.

Attention without object is a supreme form of prayer

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth

My sense is that all human beings alive have enormous schisms in their experience, terrifying schisms within our feelings and within what we discover the world to be. One premise of art is that anything personal seen deeply enough becomes general, becomes impersonal.

One of the reasons I think I love writing short stories is that people who love and read them are only there out of a love for literature.

Literature, when it is occurring, is the correspondence of two agoraphobics.

Matt Caprioli

Matt Caprioli

literature