The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.