In Memorium

"I wanted the poem itself to exist and that could never be possible as long as some subject significantly elsewhere was involved. There had to be an independence derived from the very fact that words are things too. Poems gave me access to this fact more than any other possibilty in language. . . . The poem is not a signboard, pointing to content ultimately to be regarded: but is on the contrary, a form inhabited by intelligence and feeling." Robert Creeley