Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

The future is always beginning now.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.