"From dust we have come, to dust we shall return. In no way would this diminish all those very important human dimensions to the experience of death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Because they represent dimensions of experience formerly excluded from the elevated, idealized discourse that is poetry, dimensions of experience excluded as prosaic.

因为它们分别代表了原先经验的多维化,却将提升的理想化的论道即诗歌排除在外，将无趣的经验也排除在外。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选