Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.