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

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

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

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

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

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

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.