Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage