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“Minor Poet, Not Conspicuously Dishonest Richard Caddel's Introduction to Complete Poems”

“Basil Bunting Poetry Centre”

“At Briggflatts Meetinghouse recording read by the author”

“Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.”

“All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.”

“Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.”

Resonant Thoughts

"The whole tendency of civilization is...towards the multiplication of the collective functions of society. The ever growing complications of civilization create for us new services which have to be un…"

— Winston Churchill

Politics1940–2010

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"We are so far identical with our ancestors and our contemporaries that it is very rarely we can see anything that they do not see. It is not unjust that the sins of the fathers should be visited upon …"

— Samuel Butler (novelist)

Literature1835–1902

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"For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we’re up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people’s heads off. They enslave women, they geni…"

— Frank Miller

Literature1957

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"Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of the…"

— Will Cuppy

Literature1884–1949

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