I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.