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

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

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

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

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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