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"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."
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"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."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."
"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."
"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."
"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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