If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Flight is intolerable contradiction.
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