“The,purpose,of,a,match?”“To,start,a,fire,with.”No.“To,store,up,fire,And,to,keep,it,cool.”

“Not,speech,that,has,fire,But,Fire,that,can,speak—Genius.”

“Sir, there’s a tower of fire in meBinding me with terrible strength The whole of my mortal lengthAnd splitting brave the skull’s emperyIn a rush of dauntless energy To reach the most luminous etherI am the mortal grounding of a towerImminent with immortality.”

“A,bee,flying,to,the,end,of,the,world,To,find,one,flower,wherein,to,lie,curled,Is,a,Fiction,is,a,lie,That,will,keep,God,in,the,sky.”

“Between one and oneBetween integer and integerIs itself’s nothingThe abstract zero.Between I and I Between self and selfIs itself’s everythingThe abstract HeroThat self may equate to Or keep ever as two.”

“To,speak,of,the,interior,of,light,Requires,speaker,broken,by,light.”

“First, a poem must be magical,then musical as a sea-gull.”