The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
I have always come to life after coming to books.
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.