When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.