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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the
resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Poetry is a necessity of life,

Everyone in their car needs love.