What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

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

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.