Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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!

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.