“Poetry and Science; individually, but especially together are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply. We need science to help us meet reality on its terms ...

There are critics who say to readers: ‘Poetry is dead. Prose is driving it out of our modern world.’ To say any of these things you must, of course, believe that poetry is merely another way ...

Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson? Or perhaps you're just taking your first steps into the world of poetry, so none of these ring a bell.

This is most likely where I found poetry, although I wasn’t aware of it at the time. The creek held a secret world where I lost myself in endless exploration. Beneath the rocks lived crayfish ...