It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

To make one, there must be two.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.