Occupation: Poet Birth: February 18, 1926 Death: February 25, 2001
It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater..
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….
I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines.
Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up..
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take..
The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguisti….
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.
To be saved is here, local and mortal.
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included..
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 ….
In nature there are few sharp lines.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it..
Only silence perfects silence..
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability ….
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….
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal..