Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.
Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.
One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.
