Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

Will occur as time grows more open about it.

I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.