There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot. Signs in Rotation (1967)
Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. Alternating Current (1967)