...whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best. - Randall Jarrell

The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.