Poetry is God's work.

Poetry is God's work.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.