What are men? Children who doubt.
Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
The poem is itself a mirror.
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .