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

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

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

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

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

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.