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

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

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

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

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.