"in their simple feeling for one"
Larkin, Creeley, Bonnefoy, Gilbert, Kumin, Kunitz
Philip Larkin:
Robert Creeley:
Yves Bonnefoy:
Since thanks to poetry the world is closer, and its unity more perceptible, we feel more part of that unity: like the leaf of a tree, even if it falls off the branch, in an instant that is eternal. So what is death?
Jack Gilbert:
Maxine Kumin:
Writers are all secret Jews.
Stanley Kunitz:
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