A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A poem is a meteor.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the <i>sharing</i>, at its highest level...A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.