I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.