If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.