Hayden Carruth Quotes

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Now I am almost entirely love.

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

Beauty was worthIts every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending, As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.