ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Atlantis will rise again.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.