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.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

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

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

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I have a plot, but not much happens.