Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
From A. R. Ammons
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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 poetry.
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, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
In nature there are few sharp lines.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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.
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