To be saved is here, local and mortal

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.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

The nickname (Ice Princess) is just based on my looks on the outside , once you get to know me , you'll get to like me.

If you love the game, nobody can take that from you.

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.