I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

I do a lot of readings.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up