One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.