A Poem Is An Instant Of Lucidity

Only Poetry Can Measure The Distance Between Ourselves And The Other.

A Poem Is An Instant Of Lucidity In Which The Entire Organism Participates.

The Religion Of The Short Poem, In Every Age And In Every Literature, Has A Single Commandment: Less Is Always More. The Short Poem Rejects Preamble And Summary. It's About All And Everything, The Metaphysics Of A Few Words Surrounded By Much Silence. …the Short Poem Is A Match Flaring Up In A Dark Universe.

We Name One Thing And Then Another. That’s How Time Enters Poetry. Space, On The Other Hand, Comes Into Being Through The Attention We Pay To Each Word. The More Intense Our Attention, The More Space, And There’s A Lot Of Space Inside Words.

Insomnia Is An All-night Travel Agency With Posters Advertising Faraway Places.