come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.