Top 6 Hayden Carruth Quotes
#1. Beauty was worth
Its every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending,
As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.
Hayden Carruth
#2. Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us.
Hayden Carruth
#3. A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.
Hayden Carruth
#5. Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.
Hayden Carruth
#6. My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
Hayden Carruth
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