“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Be grateful Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Brilliance 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… — Hayden Carruth Absurdity 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… — Hayden Carruth Alas Copy Share Image
I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the… — Hayden Carruth Absorbing Copy Share Image
“Language not urged and crammed with love is nothing, while that which is is everything.” — Hayden Carruth Language 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… — Hayden Carruth America 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… — Hayden Carruth Death Copy Share Image
