The impulse here is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened with something almost intolerably vivid. When the deep purple blooms, you are looking at a dimension, not a posy.


The New York Times (15 December 1985)

Paul West Quotes

The impulse here is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we...

The impulse here is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we...

The impulse here is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we...

The impulse here is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we...