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

Only silence perfects silence.

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

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.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

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.