We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.
In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.
I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.