Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.