"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."

Time, Act, Chance, Disaster

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"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."

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"Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them."

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"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."

Time, Act, Chance, Disaster

"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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."

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"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

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"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."

God,

"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."

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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."

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