In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively

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

One tends to write beyond what's needed

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

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

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

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