Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."