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Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University.

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My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Absurdity, Beauty, Natural, State, States, Thinking

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

Expression, Grateful, I Have Learned, Object

I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

Creatures, Enveloped, Everything, Flower, Song, Stars

Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

Giving, Mind, Originality, Page, Thinking, Thoreau

My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.

Counts, Men, Personality, Plato, Satisfied, Wisdom

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Poetry, Poetry Is, Speak, Use

Now I am almost entirely love.

Entirely, Love

Chester Himes

Chester Himes

James Irwin

James Irwin

Carlo Dossi

Carlo Dossi

Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

Skylar Laine

Skylar Laine

Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame

Henry Maudslay

Henry Maudslay

Tom Weir

Tom Weir

Gary Webb

Gary Webb

Ben Sayers

Ben Sayers

Nirmala Srivastava

Nirmala Srivastava