DOGMA

Love is not true: mathematicians know
Truth, that’s alive in heaven, and in the mind –
Out of our bodies; you will never find
Love strict as number, and enduring so.

“The poet … like the lover … is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.”

Bizarrely, there is no page for Babette Deutsch at the Academy of American Poets. Here's a brief online bio.