Better To Be Furious At One Thing,

Poetry Does So Many Different Things, It's Difficult To Say Anything Definitive About Its Role, Which Of Course Varies From Culture To Culture. It Can Range From Being Stories Of The Tribe To The Private Lyric, To Being As W.h. Auden Said "the Clear Expression Of Mixed Feelings" To Nonsense Verse.

All Good Poems Are Victories Over Something.

A True Inner World Is Often Revealed By Style And Sensibility As Much As By What Appears To Be Confession.

Oh Abstractions Are Just Abstract Until They Have An Ache In Them.

I Make Myself Up From Everything I Am, Or Could Be. For Many Years I Was More Desire Than Fact. When I Stop Becoming, That’s When I Worry.