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

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

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.

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.

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