A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.