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It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.


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Only silence perfects silence.

Only silence perfects 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.

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.



Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.



Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.



Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.



Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.



A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.



Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage



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.

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.



Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.





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