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

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

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.

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

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

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.