Love is the last light spoken. - Dylan Thomas

I am going into the darkness of the darkness for ever.

The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick, and say to yourself, when the works are laid out before you, the vowels, the consonants, the rhymes and rhythms, "Yes, this is it. This is why the poem moves me so. It is because of the craftsmanship." But you're back again where you began. You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words.