What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Reality is the completion of experience.
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.