And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.