I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

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

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.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.