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

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.

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

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

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.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

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