It's very hard to write humor.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

I have been eating poetry.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

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

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.