2. Ambition "If the word "ambitious" has mellowed, "fame" has deteriorated enough to require a moment's thought. For us, fame tends to mean Johnny Carson and People magazine. For Keats as for Milton, for Hector as for Gilgamesh, it meant something like universal and enduring love for the deed done or the song sung." Donald Hall: Poetry and Ambition
3. Fear "Certain literary groups arise out of an irrational fear at the inevitable lack of regard." Gabriel Gudding: On Kindness and Hipness as They Relate to Cultural Production
4. Kansas There is Kansas in the wilderness. Anne Boyer: You Will Want Like Cowboys
5. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "My claim here will be that Language as a "movement" may rather be seen as related to, and reacting against, the structures and mentality of the Cold War and the 20th Century Mass Communication Society." Leevi Lehto: In the Un-American Tree; The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetries and Their Aftermath, with a Special Reference to Charles Bernstein Translated
6. Many "In most cities, there are at least as many poems as there are people." Daniel Borzutzky: Sharp Teeth of Death: An Essay on Poets and their Poetics
7. Mean "Meanness, the very thing which is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless observer in all of us, the spiteful perceptive angel who sees and tells, unimpeded by nicety or second thoughts. There is truth-telling, and more, in meanness." Tony Hoagland: Negative Capability: How to Talk Mean and Influence People
9. Movement If a poem were to have a 'heart,' the mechanism against conclusion would be in place: poem as circulatory system. Boundaries are vaguely decorative in relation to a nearly endless movement. Elizabeth Robinson: Anti-Anatomical Conclusion, or Stealing the Trespass from the Thief
10. Pleasures I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times --- Erin Belieu: On Being Fired Again
