both known and felt

Any long poem of worth will be known by its passages while being felt as a whole.

poet praising poet

I love a good homage poem—a poet praising another poet—knowing how hard it is to write even a few poems that make themselves known and at the same time matter.

floor to ceiling

The beauty of a good bookshop filled floor to ceiling with loaded shelves, or any well-stocked library for that matter, is that you feel here is a place equal to the mind, housing and holding the known and making available the unknown of this world.

stay humble

Picking up an old poetry anthology, and perusing its contents page: A few names still known, but many more gone from contemporary consciousness.

see anew

Poet, see anew what is known.

acknowledged after

If history holds, there will be some lesser known poets more known a generation or two hence.

poetic asides

There are poems one wants to publish that aren’t the poems one wants to be known for.

parts of the whole

A lyric poem retains its wholeness; while the long poem is known by its lyric parts.

too faraway

He wrote the poems that came to him, but never wrote the poems which were only dimly seen.

escape poem

Who knows what poem will escape into the world and be known?