Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.