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.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.