Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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

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 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.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster