Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Only silence perfects silence.

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

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

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

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

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.