Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.
We turn from the light to see.
There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.