The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

One tends to write beyond what's needed

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing