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

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

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.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

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