Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of uni...versals, whereas those of history are singulars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even com...e to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no other questions than these, Half squashed in mud, emerging out of the moment... We all live, learning to like it. No sonnet On this furthest strip of land....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Something Ought to be written about how this affects... You when you write poetry: The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate Something between breaths....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,... Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now, Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I was trying to tell you about a strange thing That happened to me, but this is no way to tell about it,... By making it truly happen. It drifts away in fragments. And one is left sitting in the yard To try to write poetry Using what Wyatt and Surrey left around....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still I enjoy The long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine,... The mosquitoey summer night light. Now about your poem Called this poem: it stays and must outshine its welcome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »