I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.