Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.