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.

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

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

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.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without