It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

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

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

It's very hard to write humor.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.