I have a plot, but not much happens.

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

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

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

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.