Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!