“August evenings are especially stricken with melancholy - as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart”
from Letters of Summer Past (Listy Tamtego Lata) VI
“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.”
– Louise Glück, from American Originality: Essays on Poetry; “Ten Introductions: Radial Symmetry/Katherine Larson,”