The Universe Is Made Of Stories, Not

Let Us Not Fear The Hidden. Or Each Other.

Poetry Is, Above All, An Approach To The Truth Of Feeling.

Outrage And Possibility Are In All The Poems We Know.

The Process Of Writing A Poem Represents Work Done On The Self Of The Poet, In Order To Make Form.

The 'idea' For The Poem, Which May Come As An Image Thrown Against Memory, As A Sound Of Words That Sets Off A Traveling Of Sound And Meaning, As A Curve Of Emotion (a Form) Plotted By Certain Crises Of Events Or Image Or Sound, Or As A Title Which Evokes A Sense Of Inner Relations; This Is The First 'surfacing' Of The Poem. Then A Period Of Stillness May Follow.