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

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

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.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.