I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.