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.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

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.

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

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

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