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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."
"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"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."
"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."
"Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take."
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
"Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."
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