I Hear The Singing Of

The Statement Of Ideas In A Poem May Have To Do With Logic. More Profoundly, It May Be Identified With The Emotional Progression Of The Poem, In Terms Of The Music And Images, So That The Poem Is Alive Throughout. Another, More Fundamental Statement In Poetry, Is Made Through The Images Themselves Those Declarations, Evocative, Exact, And Musical, Which Move Through Time And Are The Actions Of A Poem.

The Truth Of A Poem Is Its Form And Its Content, Its Music And Its Meaning Are The Same.

Try To Live As If There Were A God

Poetry Is, Above All, An Approach To The Truth Of Feeling. A Fine Poem Will Seize Your Imagination Intellectually - That Is, When You Reach It, You Will Reach It Intellectually Too - But The Way Is Through Emotion, Through What We Call Feeling.

The Heavy Sensual Shoulders, The Thighs, The Blood-born Flesh And Earth Turning Into Color, Rocks Into Their Crystals, Water To Sound, Fire To Form: Life Flickers Uncounted Into The Supple Arms Of Love.