People are inexterminable — like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices — that's us. - Robert Frost

If poetry isn't understanding all, the whole word, then it isn't worth anything. Young poets forget that poetry must include the mind as well as the emotions. Too many poets delude themselves by thinking the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.