History is where tensions were.

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.

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

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

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

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

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.