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

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

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.

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

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 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.