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

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

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.

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

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

What destruction have I been blessed by?

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