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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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"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."
"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.'"
"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 the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
"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."
"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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