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

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

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

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

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

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

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.