The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

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

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.