Writer's Diary

5/9/26

Listening to Brahms’ 1st Symphony—which has great courage, because Brahms is actively competing with Beethoven (even if he’s losing).

Instagram is a form of gossip; gossip is a form of Instagram.

Poetry is tending the dead (Whitman); it is also being the dying (Keats).

In the unhearable beauty of death, you find creation.

The effects of a great betrayal are felt a year after, like oil spilled into an ocean basin, circulating...

Artists are only as good as the opportunities that reach them... A great culture or civilization has great commissions, in other words.