The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.
Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.
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