When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.
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 tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
It's very hard to write humor.
No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.