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.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
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.