And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

It's very hard to write humor.

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.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

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

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.