Poetry counts; language mediates. I felt then—and I still feel—that poetry can embody loneliness and bring us into the human community in a fuller way. That loneliness, the feeling of solitude, can be thought through; it can be developed and delivered by a simple form that sacramentalizes a moment in time, a moment out of time—a little sound, a little song.
From “My Own Acquaintance”, The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology
ed. By Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
