What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
“I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.”
“A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.”