It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. - William Carlos Williams

It is difficult to get the news from poems

No defeat is made up entirely of defeat — since the world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness .

Do we not see that we are inarticulate? That is what defeats us. It is our inability to communicate to another how we are locked within ourselves, unable to say the simplest thing of importance to one another, any of us, even the most valuable, that makes our lives like those of a litter of kittens in a wood-pile.

Clean is he alone
after whom stream
the broken pieces of the city — flying apart at his approaches