I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.