Most fools think they are only ignorant.
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.
People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.
All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.
one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.