The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

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

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.