I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

In nature there are few sharp lines

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 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.

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.

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