The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations..

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow..

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION.

And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields..

I was playing catch with the European audience..

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere.

Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt..

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born..

Atlantis will rise again..

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being..

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from..

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing..

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire..

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false..

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed..

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate..

The Canadian voice is still too rustic..

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer..