The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

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.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

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.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.