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

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

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

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

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

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

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