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

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

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

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

Only silence perfects silence.

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