For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.