Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books.
Would you like to make a comment?\' This book is my comment.--from the Foreword.. \'Here you are, alive.
That\'s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.
And that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response.
But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal.
Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books
