Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

I read; I travel; I become

The poem is itself a mirror.

There's always more to see.