worldview and perspective on Poetry

The most carefully crafted language in our culture tends to be poetry. And poetry at its finest moments subverts our best attempts at hiding from reality... The poetry of liturgy has just this power. ...

The Christian gospel is rooted in langauge: God spoke a creation into being; our Savior was the Word made flesh. The poet is the person who uses words not primarily to convey information but to make a...

Language is the realm of the poet, of desire and hope, of the search for and expression of infinity.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.