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.

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.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

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.

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

In nature there are few sharp lines

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