Next to love is the desire for love.
Life is not free from its forms.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.