One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
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.
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.