I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

You'll find i-poetry, you'll find that you can download poetry, that you can stuff your i-pod with recorded poetry. So just to answer the question that way, I think that poetry is gonna catch up with that technology quite soon.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.