"A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk The first song of his happiness, and the song woke His heart to the darknes…"

"The appeal to heaven breaks off. The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness. It is a flower. On this mountainside …"

"The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and…"

"I feel like Galway Kinnell has been a teacher, even though I have never met him. I love his work. I think that what h…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"

"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"