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

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

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

I have a plot, but not much happens.