I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

History is where tensions were.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

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

I have a plot, but not much happens.

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

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.