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

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.

Only silence perfects silence.

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

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

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

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