Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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.

Only silence perfects silence.

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

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.

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.