A Troubled Guest

 “A man’s mistakes (if I may lecture you), his worst acts, aren’t out of character, as he’d like to think, are not put on him by power or stress or too much to drink, but simply a worse self he consents to be.”

― Stephen Dunn, Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry

“Why not just try to settle in, take your place, however undeserved, among the fortunate? Why not trust that almost everyone, even in his own house, is a troubled guest?”
― Stephen Dunn, Pagan Virtues: Poems