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• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we…
• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
• Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
• The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is…
• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
• I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the…
• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
• I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.…
• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot…

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