It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

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.

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

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

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.