Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
I shall gain glory or die.
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.