I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. Lyn Hejinian More Quotes by Lyn Hejinian More Quotes From Lyn Hejinian The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. Lyn Hejinian reality ideas art The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. Lyn Hejinian poetry literature process To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story. Lyn Hejinian sentences whole stories This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense. Lyn Hejinian mourning development ideas People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling. Lyn Hejinian eye people thinking A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece Lyn Hejinian fragments fractions pieces 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 hiking journey men
