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

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

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.

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

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.