Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.