Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone ...
View quoteI must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they ...
View quoteI am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that ...
View quoteIf we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is ...
View quoteDefinition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank o ...
View quoteThe poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a ...
View quoteIf a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance tha ...
View quoteEven if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route ca ...
View quoteA poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principle ...
View quoteYou have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't kee ...
View quoteBesides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while t ...
View quoteQuestions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
View quoteAnything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
View quoteThat's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly ...
View quoteOnce every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imag ...
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