Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

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

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

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

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values