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

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

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

In nature there are few sharp lines

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage