I met a young woman interested in the Renaissance, or more specifically a New Renaissance, which has a kind of justice.

I’ve been concerned about what loving her would mean.

To what extent may my interests and connections connote manliness? These are things I need to attend to. I lack patience, yet I also must seek some sort of ground.

Partly I know that chemistry in one way or another has been near-impossible to attain. But seeing an inkling, there is an impulse to set a higher watermark, even incipiently. 5 years ago

Society is always trying to provide cheap alternatives to cultured intimacy, but mostly its a joke. I’m resolving to maintain consciousness of the wisdom of my original sensibilities, as unpopular and dissapointing as it may be for a poet to take interest in women. 5 years ago