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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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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.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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