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.

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

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

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

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

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