Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Death's long anabasis.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.