Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

All power is saved, having no end.     Risesin the green season, in the sudden seasonthe white the budded                                             and the lost.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.