In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.
The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.
I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.