The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality

The journey is my home

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.