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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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