If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

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.

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.

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.

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

In nature there are few sharp lines.