I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
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.