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

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

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.

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.

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

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