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The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

This last mute touch that lingers is farewell.

O Suburbs of Despair
where nothing but the weather ever changes!

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,