All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

A new world is only a new mind.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.