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The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

Ultimately the air
Is bare sunlight where must be found
The lyric valuable.

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult

I think there is no light in the world
but the world

and I think there is light

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

What I like more than anything is to visit other islands...

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.