That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous

Let our scars fall in love.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

The very heart of the American enterprise has been taken up by the material and by power, ... It's not the kind of country [where] you'd expect to see poetry flower.