"Each minute bursts in the burning room, The great globe reels in the solar fire, Spinning the trivial and unique away…"

"I am my father's father, You are your children's guilt. In history's pity and terror The child is Aeneas again; Troy …"

"A car coughed, starting. Morning softly Melting the air, lifted the half-covered chair From underseas, kindled the lo…"

"Whence, if ever, shall come the actuality Of a voice speaking the mind's knowing, The sunlight bright on the green wi…"

"Where the light is, and each thing clear, Separate from all others, standing in its place, I drink the time and touch…"

"How the false truths of the years of youth have passed! Have passed at full speed like trains which never stopped The…"

"I no more wrote than read that book which is The self I am, half hidden as it is From one and all who see within a ki…"

"That inescapable animal walks with me, Has followed me since the black womb held, Moves where I move, distorting my g…"

"My tattered Oscar Williams 1943 anthology, with the beautiful faces of Rukeyser, Schwartz"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"