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

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

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

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

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.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.