One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one and two and then I write one, two and three and I revise one and two and then I write seven and eight and then I see that should be line four and I continually work it over as I go.