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

To be saved is here, local and mortal

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.

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

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

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