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

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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

To be saved is here, local and mortal

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.

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