Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.