To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways…” (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth’s noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard — by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Ars PoeticaA poem should be palpable and muteAs a globed fruit,DumbAs old medallions to the thumb,Silent as the sleeve-worn stoneOf casement ledges where the moss has grown—A poem should be wordlessAs the flight of birds.A...

A poem should not meanBut be.

What is more important to a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.”[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

do his thing” before. Every poet worth reading has, but those really worth reading have understood that to do your thing you have to learn first what your thing is and second how to go...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument,...

As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief…...