Garth Greenwell

Quotes

• “[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in pub...”
• “Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about bein...”
• “History is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life...”
• “the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s...”
• “You can't speak to him, he said, if you speak to him, if you give any sign to him at all, he will come back; he has to s...”