I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

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 spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

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.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

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