I Sometimes Talk About The Making Of

I Think There Was A Revolution In Poetry, Associated Chiefly With Eliot And Pound; But Maybe It Is Of The Nature Of Revolutions Or Of The Nature Of History That Their Innovations Should Later Come To Look Trivial Or Indistinguishable From Technical Tricks.

Once In Awhile You Have A Thought, And You Rhyme It.

[t]eaching Has Been For Me An Education (lord Knows What It Has Been For My Students).

Why Are Stamps Adorned With Kings And Presidents? That We May Lick Their Hinder Parts And Thump Their Heads.

Both Poet And Painter Want To Reach The Silence Behind The Language, The Silence Within The Language. Both Painter And Poet Want Their Work To Shine Not Only In Daylight But (by Whatever Illusionist Magic) From Within.