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"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
"That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends."
"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."
"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."
"If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster."
"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."
"Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take."
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