Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

We turn from the light to see.

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.