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.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

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

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

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

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