You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.