Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the ….

Only silence perfects silence..

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of po….

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included..

In nature there are few sharp lines.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it….

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take..

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction..

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF..

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe..

What destruction have I been blessed by?.

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom….

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing..

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone..

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, ….

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance..