The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.