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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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"Only silence perfects silence."
Silence
"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."
Nature
"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
Change
"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
"Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take."
Law
"Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."
Poetry
"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."
Time
"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."
Externalization
"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."
Poetry
"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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