My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.” — Hayden Carruth Copy Share
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. ... But melancholy Danes from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share
I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share
“Language not urged and crammed with love is nothing, while that which is is everything.” — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“I like that name, that game too, though utterly valueless, the animal in us just sufficiently domesticated, our venomous American aggressiveness confined to balls… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
