Lyn Hejinian Quotes

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

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.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits