Only silence perfects silence.

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.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

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

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.