You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.


Babel-17 (ed. Hachette UK, 2010) - ISBN: 9780575101838

Samuel R. Delany Quotes

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't...

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't...

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't...

You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't...