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

What destruction have I been blessed by?

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.

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

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

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

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