From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.