Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

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.

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.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

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.

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.

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

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

Drive it like you stole it, homie.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

Wild dogs? Or just Clayton? -Nick Sorrentino (Bitten)

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.