The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.