Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

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

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

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

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

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

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