tye

“It’s just those details – poorly chosen clothes, slightly flawed teeth, delightful mediocrity of soul – the make of a woman lively and real. The women on posters or in fashion magazines, the ones almost all women nowadays try to imitate, lack charm because they’re unreal, because they’re merely the sum total of a set of abstract instructions. They’re not born of human bodies but of computers! I assure you, my friend, your small-town woman is just what a poet needs, and I congratulate you!”