A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
Every good poem, in fact, is a bridge built from the known, familiar side of life over into the unknown.
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalization, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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