In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.

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

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

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