I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Atlantis will rise again.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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